Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] my hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must hold my hand up and say that their goal was down to me . |
| 2 | No you must hold my hand darling , it 's too dangerous too many cars alright too many cars . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to try to speak in the debate in the afternoon , and I 'll need my hand holding . ’ |
| 4 | But I 've promised to go horse-riding , and I 'll try my hand at mini-golf . |
| 5 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 6 | I 'm not brushing Dempsey 's teeth he 'll bite my hand off ! |
| 7 | If I get Jack and somebody on the bus I might pop my hand inside my brief case and press the recorder where 's that cameraman hid then ? oh it 's built into the dashboard , yeah |
| 8 | I could see my hand , lying palm upwards and seemingly a great distance from me . |
| 9 | If I could get my hand on the dirty little tyke who wrote it — ‘ |
| 10 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 11 | You may hold my hand . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You may hold my hand , ’ she said primly . |
| 13 | Next time my instinct for a holiday , as it does in so much else , cries for something hot and cheap , I shall stay my hand . |
| 14 | And then she would take my hand and lay her cheek against it . |
| 15 | Then , after she 'd kissed me goodnight , she would take my hand in hers and , half closing it , fill it with kisses . |
| 16 | IN WITNESS whereof I the said MARIUS STEEN the Testator have to this my LAST WILL set my hand this fifteenth day of October One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Three . |
| 17 | He put his hand over the flame of the lamp and said to Stricker : ‘ Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it can touch my hand if it likes . ’ |
| 19 | You can take my hand . |
| 20 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |