Example sentences of "[pos pn] hand he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I say ‘ sit ’ he does n't listen but if I have a biscuit in my hand he does it straight away . |
| 2 | Then he realised that , after kissing her hand he was still holding it . |
| 3 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 4 | Jerking the loaf from her hands he shouted : ‘ Midnight … |
| 5 | With his hands he showed us where he wanted the legs to go . |
| 6 | Kukulkan was attended by spirits of earth , water and fire , and was responsible for the sprouting of maize crops and the mating of fish — in short , in his hands he held the key to the tribe 's survival . |
| 7 | He straightened his back and while dusting his hands he said , ‘ You got her off , then ? ’ |
| 8 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 9 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 10 | In his hands he holds a snuff box , shaped like a small quiver , and a thin stick . |
| 11 | His feet , shod in the long black leather boots of China 's Ming rulers , rested in the embrace of two reclining golden dogs carved in the throne 's base and in his hands he held an ivory wand bearing a tiny mirror , which , Tran Van Hieu had explained , he used to shield his face and demonstrate his symbolic humility before the spirits of his ancestors . |
| 12 | He stood on a chair , and with his hands he covered the hat and hair of the man in the picture . |
| 13 | With extra time on his hands he walked the dog by the Manse Burn in Bearsden and in outcrops of shale his trained eye saw parts of fish fossils . |
| 14 | In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer . |
| 15 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 16 | Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand he spoke again . |
| 17 | Shoving a camera in his hand he sent him out to cover the story ( and moved in on Vicky himself ! ) . |
| 18 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 19 | With a wave of his hand he ordered chairs brought for us , and tea . |
| 20 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 21 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 22 | As he withdrew his hand he felt the coldness of the knife and corkscrew against his flesh . |
| 23 | He was dressed in swimming-shorts and a garish red-and-white water-polo player 's cap , and in his hand he had the blue rubber flippers and a pair of underwater masks and schnorkels . |
| 24 | He was dressed in clothes that were much too large for him , and in his hand he held a small bottle . |
| 25 | Caught him with a screwdriver in his hand he 's admitted he 's done it and he 's got let off . |
| 26 | The rider had a scarf tied about his face and in his hand he held a double-barrelled pistol . |
| 27 | None are so efficient in obtaining specimens as the naked black , whose noiseless and gliding steps enable him to steel upon it unheard and unperceived , and with a gun in his hand he rarely allows it to escape , and in many instances , he will even kill it with his own weapons . ’ |
| 28 | But when Farrel shook his hand he saw Lowell wince and realised he 'd gripped too hard . |
| 29 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 30 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |