Example sentences of "hand [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take your boots off ( if indoors ) and rub your feet with your hands or warm them on someone else 's tummy ( this really sorts out your friends and do n't worry you ca n't catch verrucae this way ) . |
| 2 | She did n't hear the door open or feel the hands that eased her to her feet . |
| 3 | Sister moved quickly , but it was other hands that helped her to her feet , strong male hands . |
| 4 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He gave one last poke with the bat and , throwing it to the ground , clasped both hands and raised them above his head . |
| 10 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 11 | Meredith marched across , grasped his pullover in both hands and dragged him off the pillows to shake him violently . |
| 12 | ‘ The film will feature interviews with victims of male aggression in Ireland , Nicaragua , Palestine and Hackney , focusing on the need for women everywhere to join hands and liberate ourselves from the yoke of anti-female oppression , ’ said the letter . |
| 13 | He reached out to take one of her hands and hold it between both his own . |
| 14 | She picked the onions up between cupped hands and dropped them into the frying pan on the cooker . |
| 15 | Giles leaned forward ; he took her face between his hands and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 16 | Izzie came and gave the cups into Gabriel 's hands and kissed him on the forehead . |
| 17 | There were three soldiers for every nun ; they tied our hands and took us to a small room , two soldiers pushing each nun . |
| 18 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 19 | He snatched the girlie magazine from his comrade 's hands and tossed it on the seat . |
| 20 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 21 | He came to her , taking her hands and drawing her to her feet , just standing there looking down at her as she found herself quite incapable of resisting . |
| 22 | She tried to slide past him but he swung round with her , catching both her hands and holding her in front of him . |
| 23 | He got the ends of the belt around his hands and wound them into a good , tight grip . |
| 24 | I stop to put a condom on , then climb onto the bed behind her , put the knife onto the sheets just within reach , grip her hips with both hands and pull her onto my cock . |
| 25 | She took one of his hands and pressed it to the bodice of her gown . |
| 26 | It is so easy to hold a good roach , deep of body and broad of shoulder in your hands and dismiss it without accurate weighing as ’ two pounds ’ . |
| 27 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 28 | He took her hands and crushed them between his . |
| 29 | ‘ God , you 're beautiful , ’ he muttered fiercely , holding one breast in his hands and raising it to his mouth . |
| 30 | He sat on the top step , raised the automatic with both hands and aimed it at the arm that was writhing in the aperture below . |