Example sentences of "[adj] hand [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The government has a free hand as regards interpreting this declaration , ’ Mr Yegor Gaidar , the first deputy Prime Minister and economics supremo , said yesterday . |
| 2 | Although the House of Lords has allowed the BBC and ITN broadcasters a fairly free hand when filming their House , the 1988–89 Committee was much more cautious and imposed rules almost as restrictive as those in Canada ( despite , one might think , its own visit there ) . |
| 3 | Worse was to come when the left-handed star broke his left hand while swinging on scaffolding . |
| 4 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 5 | Floating Gomez up on to his shoulders , he held him there with his left hand while pulling steadily with his right . |
| 6 | Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton . |
| 7 | The minutiae of its English outcrop from Dorset to Yorkshire have probably been turned over by more loving hands than have touched any equivalent heap of sediment elsewhere . |
| 8 | ‘ Hello , darling , ’ he called waving with his right hand while trying to keep the dogs at bay with his left . |
| 9 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 10 | These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand . |
| 11 | The tone of her voice has risen , she pushes the hair off her face with one worried hand while gesticulating with the other . |
| 12 | The distance of a finger from a target was measured where the subject was either under normal conditions , wearing prisms , or using a non-preferred hand while wearing prisms using a within subjects design . |
| 13 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |
| 14 | A bridging loan can also give you an upper hand when buying in a very slow market . |
| 15 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 16 | It was n't Peter 's boyish hand as expected , but a more mature , altogether more powerful one , with a white cuff and an inch of dark dinner-jacket jutting between the curtains . |
| 17 | Ann and Beth had married into farming families and had the same careworn faces and workworn hands as had his wife and mother . |