Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the former blacksmith from Barnsley ‘ walked into the United dressing-room , he would put a hand on to a shelf in search of a package before he took his coat off . |
| 2 | Roscoe 's ambition was to drain the whole wetland , and to this end he organized ditching , marling , and importation from nearby Manchester of boatload upon boatload of human ordure , which was forked by hand on to the moss . |
| 3 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 4 | It 's a manifestation of the marvellous relationship you had with your husband and that 's something you should hand on to dearly . |
| 5 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 6 | We each attach a bracelet to our wrist then press the palm of our other hand on to the metal pad . |
| 7 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 8 | For the very reason that he could not lift Lucy 's dark tresses and have a look , he could not slip his hand on to her neck . |
| 9 | And then a lot depended on the women as well hand on till death well you what do you expect to be pregnant next morning . |
| 10 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 11 | We forced our way on and found suitable straps to hand on to . |
| 12 | Robyn banged her hand on to the steering-wheel , cursing violently as she did so , and then slumped despondently with her head on her arms for a moment and lived her only recurring nightmare — that one day she would be stranded in some unknown place in the pouring rain in this damned broken-down wreck of a jeep with no one to help her . |
| 13 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 14 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 15 | All of this leaves us asking what we will hand on to our children , to our neighbours and to our friends . |
| 16 | Pity the faith he will hand on to his child . |
| 17 | Yeah I know I did n't want to do that just at the moment Yep hand on hang on er I 'm just I 'm looking up again close the phone failure what that one there all right oh I was leaving that one open in case somebody rang through do n't if they ring through ca n't they come straight on if I leave it open ? |
| 18 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 19 | The other on population and housing , erm has been delayed in being sent to the printers , in order that we might incorporate some of the erm information from last year er so that the document would be thereby erm even more er immediately useful and in consequence it wo n't be available until either the end of the month or the very beginning of February , but er progress is on a is in hand on that er that 's all I wanted to say to you . |
| 20 | Hand on like this . |
| 21 | Put your hand on and see if it 's sticks on like burning flesh . |
| 22 | Essentially you 'll that erm the the analysts are erm hand on , uhm , ‘ both managers a such should be encouraged to consult the various directors and put some forethought into the sort of accessibilities , sorry accountabilities , that characterize a certain sort of job ’ so although they are not all directors , Neil is is is will be our editorial expert in this . |
| 23 | Bring your leading hand down , barring the rising knee , and simultaneously reverse punch to your opponent 's mid-section . |
| 24 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 25 | Masha unbuttoned his shirt and slid her hand down . |
| 26 | The greatest number , however , were self-employed men who often had some small property to hand down along with the know-how of their trade . |
| 27 | She put her hand down and called Much , who came and pressed his body , trembling and filthy , against her legs , between her and the sinking fire . |
| 28 | He ran his hand down her shoulder blade . |
| 29 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 30 | She put her hand down to push him away and he grabbed it , squeezing it around the erect penis and forcing her to rub it up and down . |