Example sentences of "hand [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had thrust the envelope into her hand and run towards the gate without looking back , his boots clattering on the pavement . |
| 32 | This is wheeled by hand and placed under the end of a coach . |
| 33 | He lifted Denis 's hand and placed all the money in it . |
| 34 | After several warnings he was called to the front of the class , told to hold out his hand and caned by Miss Smith with the flat of a foot ruler . |
| 35 | With a calm smile , the girl swung the empty pot into her hand and swayed with lazy sensuality towards the kitchen . |
| 36 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 37 | With a human gesture , he cupped his mouth with one hand and called upwards into the night . |
| 38 | This depicted the man-bull Eabani , seizing an ibex by the horn with one hand and flanked on the other by crossed rampant beasts , as well as a goddess wearing a Sumerian skirt . |
| 39 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 40 | So saying , she thrust the coffee into Jack 's hand and made for the light reading ‘ Ladies ’ , rubbing and muttering as she went . |
| 41 | Gallagher grabbed his hair with his left hand and swung with his right . |
| 42 | Thumb Sucking — If this is done frequently and perniciously it must be taken in hand and treated as a bad habit . |
| 43 | Bergson reached out almost tenderly and took the man 's cheek between the fingers of his left hand and twisted until Sung fell to his feet , whimpering in pain . |
| 44 | My own ponies are freeze branded , still beautiful and win ribbons at National shows ( e.g. Ponies U.K. ) both in hand and ridden . |
| 45 | Using this method of breeding Killifish , the eggs are best collected by hand and hatched in small dishes or tubs . |
| 46 | The severed blade was raised from the sawdust by an unseen hand and re-connected to its spindle . |
| 47 | Berowne could n't both have held the razor in his right hand and clutched at the blanket as he fell . |
| 48 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 49 | The empty glass fell from her hand and shattered on the floor . |
| 50 | I grabbed it with my hand and sunk my teeth deep into it . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Thérèse had stroked her back with one hand and spoken lovingly . |
| 53 | As the final item of business in the parliament of 1555 , the queen 's advocate got up to present her act of revocation to the regent and the three estates , signed with Mary 's own hand and sealed with her privy seal at Fontainebleau on 25 April . |
| 54 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 55 | A woman escaped uninjured but another man was burned on the hand and taken to Broadford Hospital , Skye . |
| 56 | On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front . |
| 57 | During the first simultaneous space walk by three astronauts or cosmonauts , the 4.5-tonne satellite was snatched by hand and brought into the shuttle 's recovery bay , where a new motor was attached . |
| 58 | The hunk of bread was knocked out of his hand and dropped on the edge of the hearth-stone . |
| 59 | Leo picked up her hand and planted a kiss on it . |
| 60 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |