Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] hand " in BNC.

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1 Er and they 're both married now so er they 're , they 're quite off hand .
2 There are also early hand looms and power looms .
3 This is of course exacerbated by the fact that they are now second hand .
4 At that time , there were also 70 hand looms .
5 On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation .
6 People in the Clermont Ferrand area normally get their fish from Bordeaux or Boulogne and a lot of it is actually second hand Scottish fish being bought by agents in Boulogne . ’
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