Example sentences of "[adv] with [art] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hypothesised that left handers who employed the upright posture ( indicative of contralateral cerebral lateralisation of language ) should perform better with the left hand than inverted sinistral writers . |
| 2 | The shimmer of tears burned brightly in her eyes , and she rubbed them away with a trembling hand . |
| 3 | Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand . |
| 4 | Even by the sword , for all those evils must first be cut away with a strong hand before any good can be planted , like as the corrupt branches and the unwholesome boughs are first to be pruned , and the foul moss cleansed or scraped away , before the tree can bring forth any good fruit . |
| 5 | Paige brushed her tears away with a careless hand . |
| 6 | Turning back , he quickly scanned the sheet again , looked up at the clock , and reached forward to slide a knob towards himself , at the same time sliding another away with the other hand — presumably fading out the music . |
| 7 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 8 | She found that tears were trickling from her eyes , and dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 9 | The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 10 | He had gone to the lavatory and pressed the flush absent-mindedly with the damaged hand . |
| 11 | Stand upright with the left hand on the hip . |
| 12 | Eventually she got up , removed the bung once more with a gloved hand , and stepped back as a tongue of yellow flame licked out at her . |
| 13 | They found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 14 | Lomas and Kimura ( 1976 ) repeated this experiment using different manual tasks and found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 15 | The more common form shows the hands in an attitude of prayer , centre-chest height , with the fingertips touching and , occasionally , the thumbs crossed ; the second position involves the crossing of the arms with fingertips at centre chest , the right arm being placed over the left and the fingers of both hands remaining closed but outstretched ; finally , there is the attitude of total repose , legs slightly parted at the knees , the shoulders down and the hands placed over the groin , again with the right hand over the left and the fingers together yet unclasped . |
| 16 | Away goes Lawrence to , takes it again with the bottom hand away from the bat , it 's off the back foot this time , stabbing it down in front of him , a short of a length ball . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think we 've met , have we ? ’ he queried , coming forward with an outstretched hand . |
| 18 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 19 | Hopefully I 'll get you an early copy , not with the J Ds and everything but certainly with the left hand side , and the right hand side of the document and the final version of the document with charts |