Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is expected soon to hand down a ruling . |
| 2 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 3 | The warmth was welcome , although now I was nervous anew , thinking my fire would attract anything lurking near at hand . |
| 4 | The cutting process , together with a little heating , forces the whey to drain off , leaving huge banks of creamy curd that are turned constantly by hand until the acidity reaches the correct level . |
| 5 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 6 | In my apprenticeship days ( I am now 82 ) much of the work in the smaller workshops was made entirely by hand from deep sawing of heavy timber to cutting out dovetails and sticking mouldings . |
| 7 | Sorting rubbish is still done largely by hand , often by low-paid or immigrant labour , and is filthy and dangerous work . |
| 8 | White gouache dots added later by hand |
| 9 | At this stage things seemed well in hand but unseen problems were in the wings , for a year later , on October 19th , 1906 , the Standard reported ‘ the project to have dragged somewhat , having met with considerable opposition ’ , although in what way is not revealed . |
| 10 | The dolphins and porpoises are hunted either with hand harpoons or in drive fisheries . |
| 11 | People in the secret services wanted Graham Mills dead and Marek was a tool that came conveniently to hand . |
| 12 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 13 | The wolves were howling closer at hand . |
| 14 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 15 | With these ships the merchants of La Rochelle could compete in the markets of England and Flanders with wines produced nearer at hand in the Paris Basin and the Rhineland . |
| 16 | One concentrates solely on hand lines ( chiromancy ) while others are only interested in the form of the hand ( chirognomy ) . |
| 17 | Very often it is a plant which grows readily at hand . |
| 18 | And it can be equally damaging if unfamiliarity with Community mechanisms leaves an enterprise exposed to anti-competitive practices where effective remedies lie readily to hand if the proper advice is sought . |
| 19 | The smiling figure in the tan checked suit stepped forward with hand extended to greet her . |
| 20 | The answer regarding the glass would probably have to be , nothing that lay immediately to hand . |
| 21 | Everything falls neatly to hand , and all switches and indicators are clearly marked . |
| 22 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 23 | And , my guess is from , from what is being said , is that the Committee will be , the Policy Panel will see this budget book that , with all that entails , and will hear that , although if you look on page three , there are still carry forwards in hand , that they of thirty thousand , er , the Policy Panel will be told that you , you 've already thought of ways of spending er , I mean there 's thirty eight thousand in total that we 've talked about today , well erm , of , of that erm , fifty eight grant that erm , thirty eight of it is revenue , the other twenty thousand relates to the capital project of Centre . |
| 24 | The bones remaining within the intact pellets were found to be protected from weathering and after two years the pellets were taken apart by hand and the bones from them exposed again . |
| 25 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 26 | ‘ Although Joey was closing late in the race I always felt I had enough in hand to win . ’ |
| 27 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 28 | Rex called over to the waitress , who was hovering near at hand hoping for a walk-on part . |
| 29 | The reminiscing had begun and , although she paused briefly to hand round the plates and a bowl of crisp salad to go with the pie , there was no way Harry could stop her . |
| 30 | Red gouache applied afterwards by hand . |