Example sentences of "[adv] in [pos pn] left hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clasper threw the useless microphone to the ground and thrust a rolled up newspaper aloft , which he brandished furiously in his left hand . |
| 2 | He watched her fumble for an intentionally long time in her handbag for the means of lighting the Turkish cigarette she held aloft in her left hand , only a foot or so away from Mark 's head . |
| 3 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |
| 4 | She held her glass aloft in her left hand , waved hugely with her right . |
| 5 | Jammed into one of the blocks was a bright-green electrical wire , the other end of which ran to one of the jaws of the wooden clothes-peg Quinn held aloft in his left hand . |
| 6 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 7 | Striped blazer with brass buttons , tennis ‘ whites ’ , blue shoes with white spats , a pair of kid gloves held casually in his left hand , here was young , working-class Glasgow out on a spree . |
| 8 | With the rock still grasped firmly in his left hand , he began to negotiate the glowing gap . |