Example sentences of "not hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana always sat with his legs wide apart , as if inviting the touch of eyes , if not hands . |
| 2 | Since dogs have paws and not hands , ‘ him ’ can only refer to the vet ; and since , on configurational grounds , ‘ he ’ and ‘ him ’ can not co-refer , ‘ he ’ must refer to the dog . |
| 3 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 4 | The wild golden eyes and the pitiless faces of the naiads and dryads and hamadryads loomed over him , hands that were not hands but branches , reaching for him , pinioning him down . |
| 5 | Rebels ‘ would not hand over general ’ |
| 6 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 7 | He did not hand out sayings of Jesus in a little red book , or give them Christmas presents . |
| 8 | But Selznick knew that he could not hand over the selection process to assistants . |
| 9 | Do not hand over the job of introducing formal appraisal to the personnel or organizational experts . |
| 10 | For another , it does not hand out new cars as it used to . |
| 11 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 12 | The Harlow Labour councillor was worried that children who did not hand in the piece of paper , or those who gave wrongly filled-in forms , would be turned away . |
| 13 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 14 | DSS officers do not hand out money lightly , but look for evidence to support claims . |
| 15 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |
| 16 | I would not hand this in to my superior lest I would become a victim of the purges myself . |