Example sentences of "[pron] hands up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ I hold my hands up to England . |
| 2 | I had the feeling that Prentice was out to kill me with kindness , or at least make me put my hands up to something I had n't done . |
| 3 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 4 | The nation is haunted by what happened in 1940 , when it metaphorically came out with its hands up as Soviet tanks rolled in while world war was raging . |
| 5 | and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown . |
| 6 | At times they threw their hands up to their faces in true Macaulay Culkin style and almost screamed the roof off . |
| 7 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 8 | Nigel Simpkins of Nottingham University , editor of the RSC book 100 Modern reagents , agreed that synthetic organic chemists ‘ can live without carbon tetrachloride as a solvent — in an academic environment I do n't think people are going to throw their hands up in horror . |
| 9 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 10 | He was — ’ Susan threw her hands up as if inviting Pascoe 's disbelief . |
| 11 | She had gone in and looked at that picture and come running down the stairs crying , with her hands up to her face and the tears pouring . |
| 12 | Auntie Lou got to her feet and put her hands up to her hair again . |
| 13 | Joanne gave a little scream and put her hands up to her own abundant blonde hair . |
| 14 | The memory left her entirely when she put her hands up to his shoulders , close into that bony warmth until , attentive to his abstracted silence , she dropped them . |
| 15 | She gave a little moan of private enjoyment and reluctantly slid her hands up to his face . |
| 16 | She put her hands up to his head , felt the thick hair beneath her fingers , and the rekindled flame leapt in every part of her body . |
| 17 | She had thrown her hands up over her face in shock . |
| 18 | The girl was hiding her face , pushing her hands up into her hair . |
| 19 | She put her hands up around his neck , her fingers strong , and raised her head a little way off the bed to meet his kisses . |
| 20 | Sophie threw her hands up in despair . |
| 21 | Susan held her hands up in the air , and felt those other , claw-tipped hands tearing down Daine 's Dream . |
| 22 | She flung her hands up in a gesture that combined defiance and despair . |
| 23 | He had n't hit her , or snatched her camera , but stood square to her , holding his hands up as if he knew not to , bouncing on the balls of his feet , while Jean-Claude and his group looked on , keeping very still , and Miranda wondered , for a moment , if the camera were rolling , for she felt on display under George 's attack . |
| 24 | Gerrard came back to the dais and held his hands up for silence , and though there was still a good deal of noise he made himself heard above it . |
| 25 | No , he calmly surveys them , holds his hands up for silence — and I know for a fact he ca n't speak a word of Japanese . ’ |
| 26 | He put his hands up to his face , astonished . |
| 27 | He stopped , looked over his shoulder and put both his hands up to my face . |
| 28 | So when , at last , the lids rasped down , dry over dry , he uttered a short , horrified cry and put his hands up to his eyes , believing that , for his blasphemy , he was about to be blinded . |
| 29 | Sliding his hands up to her face , he cupped her head and thrust his tongue deeper still , as if he were dying of thirst , drinking from her . |
| 30 | The baby moved again , opened his eyes , and puckered his face as he pulled his hands up toward his mouth ; and Isobel smiled again as he mouthed at his fingers . |