Example sentences of "hand [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people express more of their feelings through their eyes , their hands or their whole posture than through their words . |
| 2 | Every time she closed her eyes they prodded her awake with their cold-smelling hands or their metal-tasting equipment . |
| 3 | In experimental line-out changes that will be reviewed after a year , a jumper must use both hands or his inside arm to catch the ball , and the 50 centimetre space between the lines will be doubled . |
| 4 | Rise and fall of chest breath on your hand or your cheek , circulatory system working , pulse , okay ? |
| 5 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 6 | He knelt beside his father 's chair , reaching to take the knotted hand that his father surrendered absently to him . |
| 7 | Always touch a baby , its hands and its feet and the feet are a better guide to my hands , because babies ' hands can often be cold . |
| 8 | Such beautiful manners are quite unlike those of the ranch hands and their girls in De Mille 's Rodeo or those in MacMillan 's Elite Syncopations . |
| 9 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |
| 10 | He saw the girl hijacker and the bearded man standing quite still too , with their guns in their hands and their mouths open . |
| 11 | Dimity covered her face with her hands and her thin shoulders shook . |
| 12 | When she had packed she washed Anna 's hands and her own in a basin of cool water , put on their bonnets , and took Anna 's hand to descend the stairs . |
| 13 | Flora stuck out her hands and her lower lip . |
| 14 | Claudia lowered her hands and her eyes began to dance . |
| 15 | Let me just wipe your hands and your chin before you wipe them on your sleeves . |
| 16 | The man put his head in his hands and his shoulders shook . |
| 17 | The dealer ‘ showed you his marvels , caressing them with his hands and his eyes , then cursing the fate which weighed on Modigliani and spitting in disgust … what poetry ’ , he said . |
| 18 | Nails flew through the air and landed heavily on the cindery ground , grazing his hands and his cheek . |
| 19 | Wherever possible the pupil would intervene with his own thought , his own hands and his own will to learn . |
| 20 | His hands and his body are everywhere , suffocating her . |
| 21 | Then a woman in a white cap peeling potatoes ; a shepherd leaning on his staff … an old sick farmer sitting on a chair near the hearth , his head on his hands and his elbows on his knees . ’ |
| 22 | So perhaps the laibon 's pebbles , worn smooth by his hands and his predecessors , right back to the great Mbatian , had told him . |
| 23 | Loving her with his hands and his mouth , disrobing her with an erotic skill that brought her flesh to fire , he discarded his own clothes with an economy of movement , revealing his body to her in all the beauty of its prime , before embarking on a journey of initiation which had her sobbing his name . |
| 24 | With his clammy hands and his face furrowed at nothing more than the flap of pigeons ' wings or the sight of a meter maid , he seemed to be waiting for it . |
| 25 | He stood with his hands and his hat on the counter which separated the waiting-room from the office part , looking straight at me and never away . |
| 26 | He held her face between his two hands and his glance penetrated her as if to see into her soul as he asked , ‘ Are you seeing any of those actors ? |
| 27 | Our first time , the afternoon we could n't keep our hands and our mouths away from each other . |
| 28 | My hands and my feet do n't certainly . |
| 29 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 30 | As with any type of climbing it 's the footwork that 's all important , and it matters little what you have in your hands if your feet are n't used properly . |