Example sentences of "hand [conj] a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Step by step they climbed , and as they ascended , black against the dazzling blue sky and glazed under a shroud of ice , a vast figure began to loom : a helmeted head , a flowing cape , a sword in one hand and a child in the other , and beneath its booted feet , visible as Erika and Karl reached the top of the stairs , a broken swastika , and bearing the whole gigantic figure , a grassy mound . |
| 2 | He had a riding crop in one hand and a clipboard in the other . |
| 3 | He had met the press at a cocktail party and had stood there answering impertinent questions with disconcerting honesty , a glass of ginger ale in one hand and a canapé in the other ; when he could not immediately think of an answer he nibbled the canapé and viewed the questioner with cold button eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ She often has a shovel in one hand and a pen in the other ’ said manager . |
| 5 | So I sat in bed with a slice of bread and jam in one hand and a watch in the other , trying to time the pains . |
| 6 | Thomas Meehan , one-time caretaker of the Bartram Garden , stressed his early dedication , ‘ So earnest was John Bartram in the pursuit of learning that he could scarcely spare time to eat and might often have been seen with food in one hand and a book in the other . |
| 7 | Ven , a book in one hand and a Scotch in the other , had just entered the room from his room . |
| 8 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 9 | Mrs. Bidwell , clad now in a navy-blue working overall and carrying a plastic bucket in one hand and a mop in the other , led the way . |
| 10 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 11 | He had his head in one hand and a cigarette in the other , but even the shock that Mickey was in fact human and a reformed drop-out from the Bronx failed to dispel the magic . |
| 12 | Contemporary with the Minoan deities was the Hittite Weather-god Teshub , who carried a double-axe in one hand and a thunderbolt in the other . |
| 13 | ‘ You need something to do with your hands — hold a pencil in one hand and a rubber in the other or grasp the car steering wheel with both and keep them there . |
| 14 | Taking a heavy poker in one hand and a torch in the other , he charged down the steps , feeling certain that the intruder had entered the storeroom . |
| 15 | YEARS ago , a Sinn Fein spokesman was frank enough to admit that republican policy was to ‘ take power in Ireland ’ , with a ballot box in one hand and an Armalite in the other . |
| 16 | Another , a chalcedony intaglio , shows a muscular fisherman proudly holding a skaros in one hand and an octopus in the other ( Figure 35 ) . |