Example sentences of "his hand and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg and I each took one of his hands and we led him , staggering and half blind , to the top of the ridge . |
| 2 | She took his hands and they looked into each other 's eyes . |
| 3 | The seer returns with eyes glazed past doors of forgetfulness and the flowers fall from his hands and there is left only a vague fragrance . |
| 4 | The man put his head in his hands and his shoulders shook . |
| 5 | The dealer ‘ showed you his marvels , caressing them with his hands and his eyes , then cursing the fate which weighed on Modigliani and spitting in disgust … what poetry ’ , he said . |
| 6 | Nails flew through the air and landed heavily on the cindery ground , grazing his hands and his cheek . |
| 7 | His hands and his body are everywhere , suffocating her . |
| 8 | Then a woman in a white cap peeling potatoes ; a shepherd leaning on his staff … an old sick farmer sitting on a chair near the hearth , his head on his hands and his elbows on his knees . ’ |
| 9 | So perhaps the laibon 's pebbles , worn smooth by his hands and his predecessors , right back to the great Mbatian , had told him . |
| 10 | Loving her with his hands and his mouth , disrobing her with an erotic skill that brought her flesh to fire , he discarded his own clothes with an economy of movement , revealing his body to her in all the beauty of its prime , before embarking on a journey of initiation which had her sobbing his name . |
| 11 | He stood with his hands and his hat on the counter which separated the waiting-room from the office part , looking straight at me and never away . |
| 12 | He held out his hands and she put hers into them , unresisting as he pulled her close and bent his head to hers . |
| 13 | When he lifted his hands and I placed the wafer in his palms — I thought I saw — ’ he paused then went on , ‘ there were marks , wounds . |
| 14 | There was blood on his hands and I thought he 'd had an accident . |
| 15 | The man had a couple of world-stoppers on his hands and he was n't ready to part with them . |
| 16 | The paper slid from his hands and he grasped her firmly by her shoulders . |
| 17 | ‘ Derek has to realise he has a fight on his hands and he will have to put in more effort . |
| 18 | She swayed helplessly against him , held captive by the spell of his hands and his hypnotically persuasive voice . |
| 19 | She stood quite still not knowing what to do and after a moment he pulled away , reached into his pocket for a handkerchief and wiped himself , his hand and hers . |
| 20 | Sweetheart gripped his hand and they hurried in silence down the side of Brooke Parker 's and through the iron gate at the bottom of the slope . |
| 21 | Mathers span the wheel with the heel of his hand and they bounced back on to the approach road . |
| 22 | ‘ They held his hand and they were close to him and that was important to us , ’ said Mr Parry . |
| 23 | He very wealthy , but oh dear dear he was a , he was a , tyrannical I should call him , I know for a fact that he used to before the choir walked in at night he 'd have his watch out in his hand and they 'd start at exactly the same time . |
| 24 | Then she struggled up , burying her face in his hand and her own . |
| 25 | She leaned across to pat his hand and her foam petticoat burst out of its confines under the table . |
| 26 | When she thought no one was looking , she reached out and touched his hand and her eyes were soft and inviting . |
| 27 | When he came back he had their passports and documents in his hand and it seemed that he could not get rid of them quickly enough . |
| 28 | ‘ He held the grenade in his hand and said all he had to do was open his hand and it would explode . ’ |
| 29 | And , he 's put this in his type of thing and it 's like he 's got his arm stretched out right to his mouth and he 's got a cigarette in his in his hand and it 's that like . |
| 30 | Something spattered all over his face : he put up his hand and his fingers came away red . |