Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pos pn] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it changed from green to amber the current intensified sharply and before he could stop himself Graham instinctively jerked his hand off the pad . |
| 2 | Kate instinctively grasped his hand . |
| 3 | When the party eventually broke up Ross merely lifted her hand to his lips , before leaving to join his parents at their hotel , some miles away . |
| 4 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 5 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 6 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 7 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
| 8 | After a moment he gently took my hand and moved it away , saying nothing . |
| 9 | Melanie smelt the cloying plastic of Finn 's coat and impulsively took his hand , for company . |
| 10 | She was afraid she might have a problem getting rid of him — not altogether sure she wanted to — but in the lobby he merely took her hand and raised it to his lips . |
| 11 | His hands dropped from her shoulders , and he did not speak , merely took her hand and pulled her after him , striding back up the path at a rapid pace so that she was hard pressed to keep up . |
| 12 | Juliet gently removed his hand from her hair . |
| 13 | Gioella impatiently removed his hand from her necklace and , standing up , said , ‘ Come , Constance , let us leave these silly men . |
| 14 | He gently replaced her hand on her knee and said , " You 'll have the place like a palace in no time . " |
| 15 | The soldier idly flapped his hand towards our car . |
| 16 | He gently forced his hand between her tightly closed thighs . |
| 17 | Before she could utter a word , however , he suddenly slid his hand down to hers and raised it to the candlelight . |
| 18 | She laughed and took off her glasses , then gently slid her hand into his pocket . |
| 19 | He gently held her hand on the table . |
| 20 | The missionary gently held my hand . |
| 21 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 22 | Corbett gently patted her hand . |
| 23 | As it was , Thomas merely patted her hand and said , ‘ This is a very good idea of yours , Schätzchen , and of course I shall help you in any way I can . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He badly overplayed his hand . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He already played his hand and lost . |
| 27 | And manager Tommy Jackson finally declared his hand when he met up with rival Fraser at Monday 's Football Writers ' dinner . |
| 28 | Sometimes he could not speak , and just pressed my hand . |
| 29 | He made no response , but just took her hand and led her towards the stable-block . |
| 30 | He finally removed his hand from the voltage control . |