Example sentences of "his hand [conj] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not concerned at the early pace set by Bully Boy , but he did become worried at the water jump , where he changed his hands and asked his mount to quicken with hands and heels , as he had dropped his whip . |
| 2 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 3 | Several times he tore his hands and barked his shins , and once he missed his footing and came crashing several yards down the slope before he got a desperate grip with fingers and toes and knees , and clung sweating till he recovered his breath . |
| 4 | Benjamin muttered to himself , wiped his hands and shook his head . |
| 5 | A gentle , amiable alcoholic , Tich supplemented his dole money in the pea picking season , but the soil got into the cuts on his hands and poisoned his blood . |
| 6 | He stared down at his hands and examined his fingers and then noticed that there was a thread loose on one of his own buttons . |
| 7 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 8 | Hands clapped his back or held his hand or touched his shoulder briefly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He yanked down with his hand and lifted his head , biting a chunk out of the glass , then turned the rim and bit again , splintering the glass almost to its stem . |
| 11 | He was nodding at her , obviously relieved now , and turning to Joe , he thrust out his hand and rumpled his hair as he said , ‘ Such is fate . |
| 12 | Then she found his hand and followed his arm up to his face . |
| 13 | Henry removed his hand and wagged his index finger at his member . |
| 14 | The porter drew back his hand and rubbed his mouth with the back of his wrist . |
| 15 | He half turned , dropped his hand and kicked his horse into a gallop . |
| 16 | On the left , Dunbar held his hand and re-deployed his archers to pick off any strays who might still offer a safe target . |
| 17 | He cupped her cheek in his hand and pressed his kerchief under and over her lashes . |
| 18 | He shook the bread into the broad palm of his hand and closed his fingers over it gently , as if it were alive . |
| 19 | This story improves on the original version emanating from Arran himself , that the king was almost dead when Beaton took his hand and traced his signature . |