Example sentences of "in his hand [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a clean notepad lying on the desk before Captain Maestrangelo , and he held a pen in his hand but he made no notes . |
| 2 | McGowan had a gun in his hand and he was pushing the muzzle through the zipper and into the tourist 's mouth . |
| 3 | I put the pen in his hand and he marks it himself and puts it in the box . ’ |
| 4 | The phone separated in his hand and he tweezered a one-inch diameter circuit-board from the top of his desk . |
| 5 | He had the remote control in his hand and he was channel-hopping , listlessly . |
| 6 | He had a bag in his hand and he was taking everyone 's passports and putting them in it . |
| 7 | He had a gun in his hand and he came backwards down the steps . |
| 8 | As Zen stood there fiddling with the crucifix , the end of the upright suddenly came away cleanly in his hand and he saw that it was hollow and that the lower part of the shaft contained a heavy rectangular pack about two centimetres long connected to a wire running back into the shaft and disappearing through a small hole into the figure of Christ . |
| 9 | Stick owt electrical in his hand and he 's cracked it . |
| 10 | Forster half rolled , his Uzi trembling in his hand as he got off half a clip at point blank range . |
| 11 | This chittered in his hand as he swept the suite , uncovering four further spy-flies , which Meh'Lindi despatched . |
| 12 | He crushed them in his hand as he passed the coffin and shouted at the lid , weeping , ‘ Even when you 're dead you cost me too much . ’ |
| 13 | He cups his balls in his hand as he sucks hard on damp humid cigarettes . |
| 14 | He was stepping towards her , taking a mouthful from the champagne glass in his hand as he came . |
| 15 | Luke slid the key from the ignition , tossing it lightly in his hand as he opened the car door . |
| 16 | Ruane had his address book in his hand when he went to the office door . |
| 17 | Darren Kelly , who 's twenty , said he did n't realise he had a knife in his hand when he struck Nock . |