Example sentences of "with their hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 2 | Mrs C writes that ballet dancers ‘ box their stomachs and rears with their hands before dancing ’ — this is news to me . |
| 3 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 4 | A team of 30 rescuers battled throughout Monday night and yesterday morning to free the men , crawling on their stomachs and ripping out debris with their hands as temperatures reached 30C three-quarters of a mile from the pit shaft of Stillingfleet colliery , North Yorks . |
| 5 | There are few more poignant sights than a group of people who are desperate to walk up a mountain , standing with their hands in pockets and feet in slippers , gazing out the window at weather that looks like television interference . |
| 6 | You can always tell when people are preparing to partake in a thrilling sport from the small pack of men standing around with their hands in their pockets . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , sir , that 's one parachute , a harness , a safety helmet and a group of five men to watch you with their hands in their pockets . |
| 8 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , this phenomenon ( known to mariners as St Elmo 's Fire ) was even more extensive , and the native crew ‘ engaged themselves busily in putting out this phosphorescent light with their hands . |
| 9 | The origins of this view probably came from within the Board of Education under Morant who , together with his assistants , desired to bridge the gap between education and industry so as to create a ‘ balanced culture for the masses ’ with the schools providing pupils with ‘ meaning for the work they did with their hands ’ . |
| 10 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 11 | I see them in the village day after day , standin' outside the public houses with their hands in their pockets , passin' remarks on the people passing by . ’ |
| 12 | In an instant they were kneeling in silence by the bed with bowed foreheads ; and the sick boy tenderly put his hands on their heads , and pushed the frail white fingers through their hair , and looked at them tearfully without a word , till they hid their faces with their hands , and broke into deep suppressed sobs of compassion . |
| 13 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 14 | Both Grandma and Mother were clever with their hands , making mats and quilts . |
| 15 | Some people are very spatially oriented which makes them good with their hands , but even that varies all the way from house building to brain surgery . |
| 16 | Men who work with their hands might find a little attention with hand lotion could make them much more romantically stimulating . |
| 17 | Children need plenty of time to manipulate and mould with their hands before tools are introduced . |
| 18 | It was , I 'm afraid , people in Hyde Park playing bongos with their hands ; there was also the keyboard on the Doors 's ‘ Light My Fire ’ . |
| 19 | All the children stand in a circle facing inward , with their hands behind their backs . |
| 20 | The first team to have everyone with their hands in the air . |
| 21 | For younger children , play the same game but this time they can hit the ball with their hands to keep it in the air . |
| 22 | The women exchanged their multiple greetings , quickly and quietly , rattling off the familiar courtesy phrases , nodding and gesturing with their hands — small gestures . |
| 23 | The main picture shows them sitting bolt upright with their hands clenched together in their laps . |
| 24 | And for mums with their hands full , there 's a trouble-free container . |
| 25 | They catch their prey and tear it apart with their hands . |
| 26 | Occasionally they walk upright along a branch , grasping it with their toes but always holding on to a branch above their heads with their hands . |
| 27 | When on the ground , they walk on the sides of their clenched feet and support themselves with their hands . |
| 28 | Men who walked with their hands in their pockets slouched along . |
| 29 | The dancers appear to whirl energetically about with their hands on their hips , flung wildly out into the air , or waving high above their heads . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's the acoustics of the hall , ’ said a Microsoft spokesperson , as people staggered around with their hands over their ears . |