Example sentences of "[pron] fingers on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try wiping my fingers on my coat , but it do n't help much — I still feel all sticky . |
| 2 | He spread out my fingers on his knee . |
| 3 | I tap my fingers on the table and look at McDunn 's cigarette packet , hoping he 'll get the hint . |
| 4 | With my fingers on the handle I looked through the glass at the new world beneath me . |
| 5 | I drummed my fingers on the desktop . |
| 6 | I paused with my fingers on the plunger . |
| 7 | I stand facing him , one foot away , my fingers on his larynx . |
| 8 | My fingers on my calculator are not as nimble as they should be . |
| 9 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 10 | The resulting squawk — actually a recording of Sam and five friends rubbing their fingers on a damp window pane — will soon be played to a dauntingly expert audience through 30 loudspeakers in Huddersfield town hall . |
| 11 | Opposition burn their fingers on microwave Sketch . |
| 12 | But a mere ‘ gut feeling ’ on the part of your superiors that you fall short of what is expected , when they can not put their fingers on what is wrong , is not really good enough . |
| 13 | The participants place their fingers on the top of an upturned glass or pointer on castors . |
| 14 | Since burning their fingers on 100% lending that flared into bad debt , lenders have been insisting that customers borrowing more than 70% to 75% of property value make them a present of an insurance policy against default . |
| 15 | Spreadsheet vendors ca n't be accused of not having their fingers on the pulse of their market . |
| 16 | Punters who burned their fingers on Picton at Romford should give the unlucky Kim Marlow runner another chance . |
| 17 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 18 | Children have their fingers on the record button and watch what they like . |
| 19 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 20 | Well during this programme I 'll be talking with a number of people who are involved in the industry who have their fingers on the pulse of what is commonly known as the tourist industry . |
| 21 | It is attempting to find out what is causing the mix , indicating it does not have its fingers on the distribution pulse because of its two-tiered channel . |
| 22 | And with that she took two of Granny 's pennies from her pocket , put her fingers on Granny 's eyes to push her eyelids down and placed a penny over each eye . |
| 23 | She drummed her fingers on the Canadian maple table instead . |
| 24 | Tabitha sighed in annoyance and drummed her fingers on the desktop . |
| 25 | She replaced the receiver and tapped her fingers on the dog-eared directory as she waited for it to ring . |
| 26 | Jane reached out and rested her fingers on the back of his hand . |
| 27 | ‘ Parceline , parceline … ’ she breathed , tapping her fingers on the thick steering wheel . |
| 28 | Then he remembered her sweet voice , and the touch of her fingers on his face , and her warm breath on his lips . |
| 29 | Quickly wiping her fingers on the cotton wool , she tore a large plaster from its paper envelope and pressed the dressing into place over the lacerated bump . |
| 30 | She drums her fingers on the banister as I edge back to the lounge . |