Example sentences of "her hand [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked sharply out of the window and produced a handkerchief which she held clenched in her hand but did not use . |
| 2 | It was her hand that lay decorously on his shoulder . |
| 3 | He had held her hand while listening to her political ambitions , giving to them the same care he devoted to a Ministerial Statement in the House . |
| 4 | After a couple of deep breaths , she felt well enough to open her eyes , and as the mists cleared she focused on a most peculiar tableau : Jackie Tiptoe sitting on the floor next to Rose Williams , holding her hand and murmuring in her ear . |
| 5 | They stayed only minutes , most of them , pressing her hand and uttering the easy ritual phrases of sympathy and then departing , leaving their cards in the hall until the salver seemed endlessly overflowing . |
| 6 | It was an old number , fast and furious , and he held her hand and twirled her around , pulling her in close , propelling her away , looking relaxed and so unlike the Luke Denner that she had come to love to hate that she wondered if she was n't hallucinating . |
| 7 | He took her hand and pressed it against his belly . |
| 8 | With a sudden exclamation , he caught her hand and pressed the palm of it to his lips . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been exactly nothing to each other , ’ he said curtly , lifting her hand and dropping it as though it were poisonous to touch . |
| 10 | ‘ I — I 'm on your horse , ’ she murmured shakily , wiping her eyes with the back of her hand and glancing up at him . |
| 11 | Nicolo took her hand and forced it towards the dark , slashing opening . |
| 12 | She withdrew her hand and grazed his cheek softly with the back of her fingers . |
| 13 | Then all at once he was taking her hand and drawing her up to stand before him . |
| 14 | He let go of her hand and walked away down the road towards the village , the bundle swinging against his back . |
| 15 | She still had the torch in her hand and brought it down on her assailant with all her strength . |
| 16 | He reached for her hand and brought it to his lips . |
| 17 | She ran a hand through her hair and then took the jade necklace in her hand and began to rub her fingers over it , as if it was a magic charm that could somehow protect her . |
| 18 | The bravest of us raised her hand and asked by what authority the Maoist Women 's Liberation Front had commandeered the stage , and seen fit to hand out reams of papers as proposed discussion documents . |
| 19 | That ominous expression of sympathy from pebbled-glassed Jules , who took her hand and asked her meaningfully how she was ? |
| 20 | We had a class composition , My Best Friend , and the girl who was describing me put up her hand and asked to borrow a ruler because she said she 'd have to draw me straight up and down . " |
| 21 | In the dim light , Alexandra stretched out her hand and felt for her father 's . |
| 22 | He took her hand and felt the scar on her thumb , legacy of an accident with a kitchen knife in the early days of their marriage . |
| 23 | ‘ We take no risk I think , my brother and I. ’ He kissed her hand and left . |
| 24 | I tell you , I was hard put not to snatch it from her hand and throw it and her out of the window . ’ |
| 25 | She leaned her head on her hand and stirred her cider with a fingertip . |
| 26 | The first Fairy is slow and gracious to denote Beauty ; she encircles her face with her hand and displays the line of her arm ( the traditional gesture for beauty ) . |
| 27 | She took a pinch of snuff in her hand and sprinkled it over the note murmuring something under her breath . |
| 28 | Anna smiled as she took her hand and tucked it into hers . |
| 29 | Here , she hesitated before she raised her hand and lifted the black knocker . |
| 30 | One mother of small children opened her garden shed to find a rat which jumped over her hand and ran out . |