Example sentences of "hand [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head throbbed mightily from the blows he 'd received , and the continuous agony of his burned hand made him feel as if the limb was swelling to gigantic proportions . |
| 2 | ‘ Follow me and no harm will come to thy sheep ’ , the Emperor replied , and taking him by the hand led him into a cave in the side of the mountain . |
| 3 | Something in the syncopated rhythmic movement of their two stroking hands stopped him though . |
| 4 | And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again . |
| 5 | The theatrical paleness of his face and hands pleased him . |
| 6 | Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 7 | Those two seemingly soothing hands hauled him up from out of the glove . |
| 8 | To confess with a canvas chair as a prie-Dieu , gouging at his heart until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go ? |
| 9 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 10 | But the hand was still there , warm now on the nape of his neck ; and the hand guided him as he lurched forward again , the firm body beside his , holding him upright ; helping him up dark stairs and through a pitching doorway . |
| 11 | The crab-like hand reached him , closed around his belt , and began to drag him relentlessly clear . |
| 12 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
| 13 | A hand seized him by the hair and yanked his head back . |
| 14 | Her hand presented him to himself . |
| 15 | MAURICE Core 's battering-ram right hand won him the vacant British light-heavyweight title at Manchester 's New Century Hall last night . |
| 16 | Suddenly a heavy hand whacked him in the shoulder blades . |
| 17 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 18 | Only the slight flexing of his left hand gave him away , this green man , nearing his winter death . |
| 19 | For some reason the hand reminded him of Mrs Wright , though her hands were n't white . |
| 20 | by how his hands deceived him . |
| 21 | Briefly her hands left him , darting behind her neck to undo a clasp . |
| 22 | Charles dropped immediately into a deep sleep where lumbering Thurber cartoon figures with guns in their hands chased him through a landscape of pastel green , dotted with red flowers . |
| 23 | Rough hands gripped him by his crotch and the back of his neck , holding him aloft like a defenceless struggling insect tipped on to its back . |
| 24 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 25 | A cool hand gripped him under each armpit . |
| 26 | A hand pushed him further into the dirt ; a voice had said : ‘ Just listen ; you do n't know me , but I know you . ’ |