Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 31 | It took Mr Gorbachev a year or two to perceive that he held a hopelessly weak hand — that the Soviet Union could not possibly match the enormous economic and technological resources Mr Reagan commanded and was prepared to employ , including the much-maligned Strategic Defence Initiative , which Mr Shultz strongly supported . |
| 32 | Steer the board through the eye of the wind until the sail brushes on your back leg , before transferring both back hand and foot up to the mast . |
| 33 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 34 | She pushed a slightly unsteady hand through her shoulder-length cloud of freshly washed curls , and fervently wished herself elsewhere . |
| 35 | There are also early hand looms and power looms . |
| 36 | Got a bleeding lunatic hand I 've got ! |
| 37 | The strong tendons in his darkly tanned hand sprang into relief as he lifted the pot . |
| 38 | The Sikh pattern-cutter 's abdomen is examined with a distinctly shaky hand that tries to elicit the signs of a possible perforated ulcer as his family of six stare on with fixed incomprehension . |
| 39 | With a slightly shaky hand I tool hold of the pendant hanging around my neck and pressed its jewels in a certain way . |
| 40 | I can feel again beneath my fingers the vigorous resentment of the caterpillar , the wet , leathery hydrangea leaves , and my mother 's little work-worn hand . |
| 41 | The writer can feel again the caterpillar , the hydrangea leaves and ‘ my mother 's little work-worn hand ’ . |
| 42 | He had suddenly appeared through the trees and was thrusting what looked like half a chicken into my now outstretched hand . |
| 43 | Although the House of Lords has allowed the BBC and ITN broadcasters a fairly free hand when filming their House , the 1988–89 Committee was much more cautious and imposed rules almost as restrictive as those in Canada ( despite , one might think , its own visit there ) . |
| 44 | Come now , whatever you may have heard of me , this is a perfectly ordinary hand , not a centaur 's hoof or a goblin 's claw . ’ |
| 45 | She waved a perfectly manicured hand at a bucket of wine-bottles . |
| 46 | His single-breasted suit was made of mohair and he flicked a trace of ash off his trousers with a perfectly manicured hand . |
| 47 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 48 | Yes , here it is — a thick brown file with the careful capitals of the title written in Summerchild 's now familiar hand . |
| 49 | With the extra wealth from trade the townsfolk enlarged their churches and often added hand some spires . |
| 50 | Lorimer had been enchanted by her apparent demure silence and , later , following a particularly emphatic hand gesture on Cleo 's part , had escorted her outside . |
| 51 | In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand , all bloody at the roots . |
| 52 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 53 | Haverford wrote in a small , meticulously neat hand . |
| 54 | She fell back among her pillows , her widow 's veil a curling black crown behind her head ; one narrowly white-cuffed hand still held the glass of whisky erect — there was a magnificence in her yielding . |
| 55 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 56 | No way could he have the miracle three in the hole , to match my equally flukey hand . |
| 57 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 58 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 59 | The new presidents therefore had a relatively free hand to implement reforms . |
| 60 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |