Example sentences of "at hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the house , your mistress is at hand , |
| 2 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 3 | I saw the cherry and realized an opportunity was at hand . |
| 4 | The Gardeners ' Manual has been designed to pull out and collect , so you can always keep it close at hand with your other gardening reference books . |
| 5 | Until now the only sure solution has been to grow peaches under glass , but help may be at hand . |
| 6 | Help at Hand |
| 7 | Was it the sound of someone crying close at hand ? |
| 8 | Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch . |
| 9 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 10 | There was serious work , however , at hand for Leonard . |
| 11 | Dedham from Langham , long blues , long brown shore , brush strokes in the clouds ; Rockets and Blue Lights ( Close at Hand ) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water , painted light rippled the sand and waves into a vortex and what were those people doing on the shore ? |
| 12 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 13 | After some tricky aid above the pegs , a section of typically marvellous free climbing , on pockets and depressions with target features reasonably near at hand , took me to the edge of the abyss — a blank wall with a piece of tat weaving , taunting , 40 feet above . |
| 14 | Behind the truant husband Marmeladov , perhaps the greatest feat of instant creation in all Dostoevsky as he buttonholes Raskolnikov in the pub with hay sticking to his clothes and vodka at hand — behind that immortal Russian drunkard stretches a long line of urban dropouts and psychological cripples , of paupers and other victims of the ravages of early capitalism ( think of Petersburg as several decades behind Manchester ) , of the ‘ insulted and injured ’ in the novel of that title and elsewhere , back to the beginning , back to Mr Devushkin with his teapot and pipe and his ‘ fearful lapses ’ over the bottle . |
| 15 | But help is at hand . |
| 16 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 17 | Designs are now being considered for small ice-lined cabinets for doctors ’ surgeries , so that doctors can have vaccines at hand to immunise any child who comes for treatment . |
| 18 | However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand . |
| 19 | More than once he was sadly mistaken and duly disappointed with the human material at hand ; nonetheless , he succeeded in transforming an almost dormant pre-1939 Law School at University College , London , into a flourishing and internationally leading Law Faculty . |
| 20 | A trip in a motorised open punt , with stripy red and white umbrellas at hand as shelter from the Belgian drizzle , is an enjoyable way to find your bearings , and at £2 for half an hour , offers a quick fix of what exactly hooks all these tourists . |
| 21 | No daily Hansard is at hand , to get us out of a tight corner . |
| 22 | Help is at hand in the more constructive approach of the Glover Report on Fertility and the Family , compiled for the European Commission and now published by Fourth Estate . |
| 23 | Schutz emphasized how typifications are related to the ‘ purpose at hand ’ , which suggests that some typifications will be universal ( ‘ mother ’ , ‘ father ’ ) and others more restricted depending upon how general is the purpose of their use . |
| 24 | The ‘ purpose at hand ’ , to distinguish between criminals and decent people , requires also that policemen and women be able to sense that something unusual and abnormal is occurring . |
| 25 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 26 | Someone shouted from a slit trench near at hand , ‘ Great — what some bastards will do to get a Blighty . ’ |
| 27 | The shelling and the mortaring had ceased except for the occasional explosion near at hand . |
| 28 | I 'm sure if it was n't for the explosions close at hand he would have dropped off to sleep . |
| 29 | Fortunately the shelling had ceased with just the occasional mortar burst close at hand when the Duty Officer made his rounds at ‘ stand-to' ’ . |
| 30 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |