Example sentences of "[verb] with my hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try walking with my hands over my ears , and it 's a bit better . |
| 2 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 3 | Making me release her hand and walk with my hand in my pocket . |
| 4 | I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me . |
| 5 | I want to be languid as he steers , to navigate with my hands and eyes free . |
| 6 | I turned over the ashes , found the glow within the crust , added some kindling and a log , then stood to stretch with my hands in the small of my back because it was aching . |
| 7 | I talk with my hands . |
| 8 | I always do sit with my hands in my pockets , except when I am in the company of my sisters , my cousins , or my aunts ; and they kick up such a shindy — I should say expostulate so eloquently on the subject — that I have to give up and take them out — my hands I mean . ’ |
| 9 | As I stood with my hands resting on the stone of the bridge , the door of the hotel was again thrown open . |
| 10 | I stood with my hands palm to palm in a praying position and pleaded with him . |
| 11 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 12 | Leonard recalled his own practice of that time , an ‘ instinctive ’ use of ‘ primitive meditation ’ : ‘ I sat with my hands on my lap , like a cataleptic … like Ezekiel ! |
| 13 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |