Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pos pn] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads to the irresistible urge to reach out and grasp hold only to find your hand passing through these images of solid light . |
| 2 | Is he merely to proffer his hand and lead her into a stately minuet ? |
| 3 | ‘ There will be no next time , ’ Isabel got out , desperately trying to keep her breathing steady while she struggled unavailingly to free her hand . |
| 4 | Anyone foolish enough to put their hand into the liquid suffers one automatic Wound per round of contact , regardless of armour and Toughness . |
| 5 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 6 | Other children reach out for them nervously , only to have their hand lightly slapped by their mother . |
| 7 | Even if they did not , he had reason enough to stay his hand . |
| 8 | There was just too much distance between him and Richmann , however , and Richmann needed only to move his hand a few inches before firing . |
| 9 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 10 | Just to knock your hand in . |
| 11 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 12 | Ruth reached out urgently , wanting all at once to grip her hand . |
| 13 | In English we will look at a wide variety of different kinds of literature : novels , short stories , drama and poetry — you will be expected to read and understand them , and also to try your hand at writing stories and poems . |
| 14 | He engineered it so that he was standing head and shoulders above his rivals when they filed past to shake his hand and offer their condolences . |
| 15 | He hoped thus both to strengthen his hand in the cabinet , several of whose members were by no means convinced supporters of his policies , and to counteract the influence at court of the hostile Austrian and Russian ambassadors , who could usually count on the sympathy of George IV . |
| 16 | Minutes later , 'Mill went further behind , when Andy Berry was caught by a cruel bounce as he was about to clear and the ball spun up viciously to strike his hand . |
| 17 | As she bit her lip , Desmond recognised her pain , and reached out sympathetically to touch her hand . |
| 18 | She leaned across to pat his hand and her foam petticoat burst out of its confines under the table . |
| 19 | ‘ You touch my heart , sieur , ’ said the tall man , stepping forwards to offer his hand and accidentally standing on Marvin 's toes . |
| 20 | He reached across to take her hand . |
| 21 | Lovat was pleased at her reaction and leaned forward to pat her hand . |
| 22 | It was as much as she could do to restrain herself from rushing forward to grasp his hand in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity . |
| 23 | ‘ Come on , then , ’ he said , reaching forward to take her hand . |
| 24 | He leaned forward to take her hand . |
| 25 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |