Example sentences of "hands and [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lifted Patrick 's hands and arms and let them fall , he shook his shoulders and moved his head to and fro , then he began to stroke his face , carefully as if he were moulding it . |
| 2 | Frankie had scrubbed his hands and feet and dampened his hair with water to make it lie flat and tidy against his head . |
| 3 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
| 4 | I fell over but carried on waving from on hands and knees and saw the car stop two hundred yards away . |
| 5 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 6 | He later recalled , ‘ crawling on sore hands and knees and reaching the actual coalface … |
| 7 | Advantages : It can work out quite cheap , depending on what payment you negotiate ; the children will know her ; she wo n't mind getting down on her hands and knees and playing horses with them ! |
| 8 | Better than that was riding on his back while he went down on hands and knees and neighed like a horse . |
| 9 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 10 | On the other hand I am prepared to get on my hands and knees and see if there is any rem in dogs . |
| 11 | In the ‘ post-feminist era ’ , equal opportunities are available to those women who ‘ get off their hands and knees and work for them ’ . |
| 12 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |