Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 2 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 3 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 4 | ‘ But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 5 | But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 6 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 7 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 8 | I untied the belt of her dressing-gown and got my hands inside . |
| 9 | When , as predicted , he jumped in surprise , I whipped my hand through his legs , giving his whole beanbag a good tug . |
| 10 | Yes , but I , I , I did n't know , I mean I did n't feel that , I just realised my hand was bleeding and the skin 's gone like that , look , the skin 's gone like that . |
| 11 | I shouted aloud , then , remembering — where I was , clapped my hand over my mouth . |
| 12 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 13 | After an increasingly eerie half hour of this I clapped my hands together and said , rather abruptly perhaps , " Right then . |
| 14 | I clapped my hands mockingly . |
| 15 | lorries can you count , one , one , one , that 's all we can count , all we one by big and stout , I clapped my hands , and I jump up jump up and turn around and I jump |
| 16 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 17 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 18 | I wiped my hand on his trousers . |
| 19 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 20 | I knelt on the rug and passed my hand over Debbie 's neck and ribs . |
| 21 | I put the gun down and passed my hand over my eyes . |
| 22 | The nurse ( just twenty-two and looking forward to her holiday in Greece ) checked my hand for bits of glass and then applied an impression splint . |
| 23 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 24 | Martinque richly deserves its nickname of ‘ island of flowers ’ and against the background of this lush tropical island I tried my hand at water-skiing for the first time . |
| 25 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 26 | But the time the weather improved we had run out of bread again and I tried my hand at making some . |
| 27 | I laughed and thrashed my hand up and down on the arm of my chair in an ecstasy of amusement . |
| 28 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 29 | I moved my hand away . |
| 30 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |