Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is expected soon to hand down a ruling . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sorting rubbish is still done largely by hand , often by low-paid or immigrant labour , and is filthy and dangerous work . |
| 6 | The dolphins and porpoises are hunted either with hand harpoons or in drive fisheries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |