Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] hand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 2 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 3 | Saying , Lay not thy hand upon the lad , |
| 4 | He pulled away his hand with a jerk . |
| 5 | D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me . |
| 6 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 7 | She held up her hand to him to say , " Wait while I see if it 's safe , " and darted back through the kitchen and into the house , listening in the big hall where suits of dull metal armour stood mutely by the heavy oak doors . |
| 8 | She put up her hand to her face and found it wet . |
| 9 | She held up her hand for silence . |
| 10 | No , do n't keep denying it — ’ she held up her hand in protest as Rachel opened her mouth ‘ — it just wo n't wash any more . |
| 11 | She held up her hand against his protest . |
| 12 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 13 | No sooner had he freed the platform of the Collector 's superfluous presence than the Doctor sprang into his place and held up his hand for silence . |
| 14 | Springfield held up his hand for silence and the low murmur of talk died away completely . |
| 15 | The grandstands erupted with applause but Stevie held up his hand for silence . |
| 16 | The Old and New Courts described , SB 31 ; ‘ hold up his hand at the Old Bailey ’ , i.e. to plead guilty . |
| 17 | Myeloski held up his hand to Duncan to silence him . |
| 18 | Then he turned to Shelley , and with a gesture that touched and surprised her by its gentleness , he put up his hand to her cheek . |
| 19 | And he picked up his hand of cards , and surveyed it with a bewildered distracted satisfaction . |
| 20 | Mr Eames the butler put up his hand in rebuke . |
| 21 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 22 | There was a long , hot moment in which all three of us were penned in a triangle of critical regard — Laura fiercely indifferent to everything except the health of her blaze ; me awkwardly between , holding out my hand for the axe ; Edward , old man suddenly , hating his years and his uncertain hands , humiliated , furious with Laura , resentful of my youth , and profoundly unwilling to surrender the axe . |
| 23 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 24 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |
| 25 | When it did not open , I broke the glass angrily and stretched out my hand towards the branch . |
| 26 | And she stretched out her hand for me to see it shake . |
| 27 | It –vas such an odd and witty little toy that Melanie giggled and stretched out her hand for it , to work it herself . |
| 28 | She held out her hand for the Mills bombs . |
| 29 | Celia held out her hand for the paper . |
| 30 | Charity held out her hand for the file , and flipped it open . |