Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was silent for the first half mile , then he beat the wheel suddenly with one hand . |
| 2 | When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . |
| 3 | Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’ |
| 4 | Then he stood and gathered his hat , cigar and white gloves together in one hand . |
| 5 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 6 | Lotus 's VARI process does away with laborious hand lay-up of fibres ( above ) |
| 7 | If you take away with one hand , give with the other — but at another , appropriate time . |
| 8 | Gentrification benefits selectively , takes away with one hand as it gives with another , bestowing respectability at a cost of displacement ( chapters 5 and 6 ) . |
| 9 | What the government gave away with one hand , however , it took back with the other . |
| 10 | The trolley has rollerbearing wheels with rubber tyres , can turn on its axis , and can be manoeuvred easily with one hand . |
| 11 | This one is free standing ; l when folded and can be collapsed easily with one hand only . |
| 12 | I sat snug in the tooled leather saddle , the reins lying easily in one hand . |
| 13 | It is n't , but it 's very small and compact , and can be carried easily in one hand . |
| 14 | She tried to struggle , but he caught her flailing wrists and pulled them roughly behind her back , holding them easily in one hand . |
| 15 | His reaction was to allow a harsh laugh to escape him , until she struck him hard on the jaw ; then his laughter changed in a flash and he grabbed hold of first one fist , then two , holding them easily in one hand while be brought up his free hand and cupped her chin in it . |
| 16 | The Walkman-sized GameBoy fits comfortably in one hand , and has a two-inch yellow monochrome screen on which it is often hard to get the viewing angle right . |
| 17 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
| 18 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 19 | A concurrent verbal task interfered with the speed and consistency of tapping by the right hand while a visuo-spatial task interfered more with left hand performance . |
| 20 | Kentigern 's own example was powerful : he went always on foot , lived temperately , went into cold water each morning even in winter , lay at night in a stone coffin with ashes for a mattress , and yet he was a man of business , his parishes grew , churches were established the country over , and always in one hand he held a plain pontifical staff , in the other a psalter . ’ |
| 21 | STILL panting from her naked romps in TV 's Camomile Lawn and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes , actress Tara Fitzgerald picked up some tips on puffing yesterday from old hand Peter O'Toole . |
| 22 | Rudolf Hess sat down , and lowered his head wearily onto one hand . |
| 23 | It will be the work both of one hand and of the other . |
| 24 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 25 | Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons . |
| 26 | The Doctor hurried along the tunnel , Ace 's blaster held loosely in one hand , a little black box in the other . |
| 27 | Hold them loosely in each hand with the long arms straight ahead . |
| 28 | A mould from the Minoan town of Palaikastro shows a priestess or goddess holding a double-axe aloft in each hand . |
| 29 | Now to either hand was heather , at this season still dark and flowerless , except where patches of the early bell heather splashed their vivid purple across grey rock . |
| 30 | I 'd no difficulty in lifting a single bed with covers underneath with one hand . |