Example sentences of "hand [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience with motorway service areas confirmed my belief that far too much of transport was either in state hands or run under state control . |
| 2 | Sir Robert last night rejected calls for his resignation and explained that 50 of the recommendations made by Sir Anthony were already in hand or implemented at an estimated cost of £20 million . |
| 3 | When a book is opened , and either held in the hand or placed on a table , the front cover and hinge are immediately subjected to strain , especially if the volume is a thick and heavy one . |
| 4 | If such maps are produced by hand or drawn by a pen plotter , the increasing magnitude of the variable is shown by increasing density of line-shading . |
| 5 | Week two , an analysis written , hand or drawn or painted of an example of pre-Raphaelite work . |
| 6 | This time he sensed the determination behind her hands and played with a rag book as she put a new nappy on him . |
| 7 | We sat down , I on the arm-chair , he on the floor at my feet : He held one of my hands and played with the fingers . |
| 8 | This should be rubbed between the hands and smoothed over your hair for great shine . |
| 9 | The final scheme would be a tribute to the vision of ‘ the greatest son of the Romanian people ’ rendered by their skill and hands and made from the fruits of their native soil . |
| 10 | Opening the window , and somehow or other , the the sash it fell back , caught both her hands and jammed her finger . |
| 11 | All the years of waiting and longing and wondering poured together into his braced hands and poised , quivering feet . |
| 12 | All files which did not concern terrorism , espionage or organized crime would be removed from police hands and given to an independent body , and people would be able to obtain photocopies of their files ( and by the deadline of March 31 , 350,000 people had applied ) . |
| 13 | As I opened my arms , spread my hands and prepared to jump , horror of horrors , the gorilla turned and saw me . |
| 14 | Sawney raised his claymore in both hands and prepared to bring down the hilt . |
| 15 | They remain certain that planning , when in the proper hands and organized in a proper way , can bring a degree of social responsibility , security of conditions , and avoidance of waste and duplication , that no market system of atomized competitive production units can ever hope to achieve . |
| 16 | When his Preces , or devotions , were published after his death , the printer described ‘ the glorious deformity ’ of the original , ‘ slubbered with his pious hands and watered with his penitential tears ’ . |
| 17 | Gadgets are useful in professional hands and used in the right way , but in the hands of a novice they can be dangerous . |
| 18 | We are not concerned here with the morality of such actions but there is no doubt that most of the people evicted did not want to leave their home , a home that they or their forebears had built with their own hands and enlarged as the family increased . |
| 19 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 20 | Then they quietly washed and dried their own hands and returned to the general room . |
| 21 | He put out his hands and lifted off the little straw boater and laid it down . |
| 22 | In the shopping centre , the Conservative candidate and his supporters , decked in blue rosettes , thrust their campaign leaflets into largely willing hands and launched into a well-practised patter . |
| 23 | By making repeated attacks , Nivelle and Mangin played into Falkenhayn 's hands and incurred horrendous casualties . |
| 24 | Much of the problem can be overcome by designing networks that meet people 's walking needs , thereby encouraging a level of activity that ‘ deters antisocial behaviour and offers the reassurance of help at hand if hassled ’ . |
| 25 | Say a well-preserved sixty-four , highly sophisticated , speaking at least three languages , enough to get him out of trouble in most countries , and with a select if scattered network of friends and colleagues all across the Middle East , to lend him a hand if required . |
| 26 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 27 | She had risen from her bed , slipped on her dressing-robe , and lighting her bedside candle with the tinderbox on the table , she had taken it in her hand and gone into Lady Merchiston 's chamber . |
| 28 | Bursali Mehmed Tahir records the existence of a manuscript of the written in the author 's own hand and dated 776/1374–5 . |
| 29 | But oft en , away up alone on the moor , Hector would break from Luch 's hand and run across the rough ground till his blind feet tripped and he fell crashing , to lie striking his face and fists against the rock , snow or heather , screaming in despair and hatred and cursing Lachlan , Farquhar , Elizabeth , Marion , his grandfather , Ranald , Luch , the whole world ; and himself most of all . |
| 30 | Then turning to Millie , whose expression almost broke her down and gave her the urge to take her by the hand and run from this place , only her good sense stopped her ; and bending down , she put her arms around the child and when she felt the tightness of the embrace and the pressure of the thin body against her belly , it was only with an effort she stopped the tears from flowing . |