Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 2 | I tested a few planks carefully with the weight of my hand , then retreated and stood up on safer ground . |
| 3 | One lands on the back of my hand and thrusts its needle-like head into my skin . |
| 4 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 5 | Into Boots , try a few eye-shadows on the back of my hand . |
| 6 | Its breathing was too light to move the flanks , so I 'd go over sometimes and put the back of my hand to its nostril until I could feel the heat as it exhaled . |
| 7 | He laughed down his nose , trying to sound smooth , and a huge green plug of congealed snot landed with a ‘ thwap ’ on the back of my hand , which was resting on the bar . |
| 8 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 9 | I wiped the tears with the back of my hand . |
| 10 | I shuffled away and at the bottom of the stairs the back of my hand accidentally knocked the rail , hard . |
| 11 | I wipe with the back of my hand … look at this ! — crimson smear — blood ! |
| 12 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 13 | Ah , you could get it anywhere , I mean even , see the likes of that , that wee cut in the back of my hand ? |
| 14 | I know this city like the back of my hand , and I love every yard of it . |
| 15 | And I cursed my weakness , dashing the back of my hand over my traitorous eyes , for I saw the American woman look at me . |
| 16 | In the operating theatre , a tall and ancient nurse jabs me twice to find the vein in the back of my hand . |
| 17 | A lick of tea stung the back of my hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I can , ’ he said as I finished my meal and leaned back , wiping my mouth on the back of my hand , more to annoy him that anything else . |
| 19 | Her fingers tickle the hairs on the back of my hand . |
| 20 | I pick up my jacket with the back of my hand and open the door , then realize that there is still one box I have n't looked in — the Quaker Oats box that I was sitting on . |
| 21 | ‘ Take the side stairs , I know McKay 's like the back of my hand , they lead straight up to 4 . ’ |
| 22 | I said , holding it out on the palm of my hand . |
| 23 | I pressed the tip against the palm of my hand . |
| 24 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 25 | He showed me a little thing , the size of a hazelnut , in the palm of my hand , and it was as round as a ball . |
| 26 | I looked at my penny in the palm of my hand . |
| 27 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 28 | I 'd been having to dig my nails into the palm of my hand very hard in order to stop the tears streaming , which I could n't let happen as I was to speak next and needed to keep steady . |
| 29 | I held out my free hand to catch the gooey bits before they fell on the rug and , mischievously I thought , Dawn proceeded to place them in a precise bloody pile in the palm of my hand . |
| 30 | It 's as though I 'm holding everything that I want in all the world … there in the palm of my hand . |