Example sentences of "hand [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands clapped his back or held his hand or touched his shoulder briefly . |
| 2 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 3 | Birds did it all the time with ease and grace , but for the crews of the bombers that flew from Fenton Bishop aerodrome she knew that to take off meant dry-mouthed apprehension and an ice-cold hand that twisted your guts and made you want to throw up the supper you had neither tasted nor enjoyed . |
| 4 | There was no malice in Bones , only infinite good nature , a clumsy hope to please , a passing affection for the hand that fed him . |
| 5 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 6 | The spectacle of the principal apologist for Official Nationality biting the hand that fed him must have convinced many doubters that the regime which Alexander II had inherited was intolerable . |
| 7 | ‘ She was a nobody when she first came to us and now she 's trying to bite the hand that fed her , ’ said a spokesman for the TV company bitterly . |
| 8 | Habibi 's confidence was restored , yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it ! |
| 9 | Even after the lamb has been weaned and has joined a flock it remembers the hand that fed it . |
| 10 | What kind of man are you , to steal from the hand that fed you all these years ? ’ |
| 11 | The great hand that held me was a mottled blue , crusted and filthy . |
| 12 | the hand that held her harness lightly , broken , |
| 13 | DeVore looked down at the hand that held his own . |
| 14 | He felt the hypodermic-gun pressed against his neck and tried to squirm away , struggling against the strong hand that held his shoulder , but it was too late . |
| 15 | The picture began to tremble in the hand that held it . |
| 16 | When it was pressed again , doggedly but almost blindly , he struck the questing sword expertly out of the hand that held it , with only the measured force required , and reached a hand eagerly to his adversary as he crumpled to his knees . |
| 17 | It was that final little hand that beat me . |
| 18 | The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble over a non-existent obstacle , there was a blackness before her eyes and she would have fallen but for his lightning reactions and the strong hand that grasped her elbow , supporting her . |
| 19 | I would shrink away in instant horror from the hand that placed itself on my arm or shoulder in an embarrassed and half-hearted attempt at communication . |
| 20 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 21 | Frankie pulled back against the hand that gripped him . |
| 22 | His lips were firm and damp enough , the hand that caressed her face dry and sinewy . |
| 23 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 24 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 25 | He put out a hand and ran it possessively over her hair . |
| 26 | Jay remembered the sun in the garden , the paddling pool , her mother meeting her after school , face lighting up with love and joy as her little girl pelted out of school like a tornado , seized her mother 's hand and dragged her home down the street , read to her , played with her , woke her with a kiss , read her a bedtime story . |
| 27 | His good spirits thus restored , Rickie seized his sister 's hand and dragged her excitedly towards the boat . |
| 28 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 29 | He sprinkled some snuff on the back of his hand and sniffed it . |
| 30 | On the left , Dunbar held his hand and re-deployed his archers to pick off any strays who might still offer a safe target . |