Example sentences of "in hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene as the game was adjourned on Thursday night told the whole story : Yusupov , head buried in hands , glumly contemplated the ruins of his previously wonderful position ; Karpov stood impassively behind his own chair , surveying the battleground with quiet authority . |
| 2 | She twisted the damp handkerchief in hands whose nails were still pitifully and bravely painted the way Charlie Hatton had liked them , red and shiny and glittering . |
| 3 | Head clasped in hands , he sprawled on the bed , gasping for air , as the room swayed crazily from side to side . |
| 4 | The Englishman returned to his own palatial office and sat with his head in hands . |
| 5 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 6 | Modigliani , engrossed in a book , holds up his hand to refuse disdainfully whilst Soutine , head in hands , looks plunged in despair . |
| 7 | A bored looking Knocker was face in hands , looking into space . |
| 8 | She caught a glimpse of them filing down the front steps in their best clothes , prayer books clasped in hands which no doubt itched to be unwrapping parcels . |
| 9 | I watched the events unfold like a screen play , staring dry-eyed at the projected image of two policemen , stiff with duty , beyond the open door and Dad sitting , head in hands , on the stairs . |
| 10 | SHRINK WRAPPED IN HANDS |
| 11 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 12 | The banding clamp was constructed using standard metal package banding tape 1¼in wide with metal blocks welded on and threaded ( see band clamp in Hands On WW/Oct.91/p.1060 ) . |
| 13 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 14 | When she returned she found Luney crouched , chin in hands , her back against the cooker . |
| 15 | Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam sat at his desk , head in hands , apparently oblivious to the events outside . |
| 16 | Unwelcome or not , sitting in the darkness , head in hands , there came a picture of the somersaulting St Tom which rapidly turned into a circular blur like a white spinning-top with red stripes … |
| 17 | I said , sitting on a stack , head in hands . |
| 18 | Like fishermen and others who work in cold conditions , they develop tolerance to cold in hands and faces , possibly a function of enhanced blood circulation in exposed areas of the body . |
| 19 | Every so often I find myself catapulted out of bed with fear of time and death , panic at the approaching void ; feet on the floor , head in hands , I shout a useless ( and disappointingly uneloquent ) ‘ No , no , no ’ as I wake . |
| 20 | Sinking down on the edge of the bed , she sat , head in hands . |
| 21 | Their size is measured in hands and the Shire is roughly 18hh–19hh which is very high . |
| 22 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 23 | Guerrilla bands overran the principal military barracks in the Tehran area and the arms it contained appear to have ended up in hands of varying political allegiance . |
| 24 | This has given rise to fears that the electoral process in the US has become corrupted , as money increasingly ‘ buys ’ political influence through elaborate election campaigns that concentrate power in hands of a ‘ small monied minority ’ [ Alexander ] . |
| 25 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 26 | Chariots lined up , men were ready , whips in hands , and iron helmets on heads |
| 27 | But of course , if you go back far enough do you see on these four in hands were were going from town to town were n't they ? |
| 28 | But at last , in the summer of 1988 , negotiations are in hand which may end the war . |
| 29 | Working with the on the work in hand . |
| 30 | Not those , but the few who respect silence , who respect the world , who are prepared to listen , who are prepared to change , who are aware of human weakness and vulnerability , who are aware of the imperatives of life and the imperatives of the work in hand . |