Example sentences of "hand [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was originally used as a sales technique — you shook hands or put your arm around a relation or friend — the idea was to develop this — the salesperson put his/her arm around the buyer and thereby instilled a sense of security into the individual . |
| 2 | Hands clapped his back or held his hand or touched his shoulder briefly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She did n't hear the door open or feel the hands that eased her to her feet . |
| 5 | It was the way he held his hands that killed her anger . |
| 6 | She drank in the clean masculine smell of him , revelling in the power of the arms that held her so tightly , the tenderness of the hands that caressed her heated skin . |
| 7 | She struggled proudly out of the grasp of the hard hands that held her upper arms . |
| 8 | Trent shook himself free of the hands that held him and turned his back on the man . |
| 9 | Sister moved quickly , but it was other hands that helped her to her feet , strong male hands . |
| 10 | Birds did it all the time with ease and grace , but for the crews of the bombers that flew from Fenton Bishop aerodrome she knew that to take off meant dry-mouthed apprehension and an ice-cold hand that twisted your guts and made you want to throw up the supper you had neither tasted nor enjoyed . |
| 11 | There was no malice in Bones , only infinite good nature , a clumsy hope to please , a passing affection for the hand that fed him . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | The spectacle of the principal apologist for Official Nationality biting the hand that fed him must have convinced many doubters that the regime which Alexander II had inherited was intolerable . |
| 14 | ‘ She was a nobody when she first came to us and now she 's trying to bite the hand that fed her , ’ said a spokesman for the TV company bitterly . |
| 15 | Habibi 's confidence was restored , yet never was a horse so careful not to bite the hand that fed it ! |
| 16 | Even after the lamb has been weaned and has joined a flock it remembers the hand that fed it . |
| 17 | What kind of man are you , to steal from the hand that fed you all these years ? ’ |
| 18 | The great hand that held me was a mottled blue , crusted and filthy . |
| 19 | the hand that held her harness lightly , broken , |
| 20 | DeVore looked down at the hand that held his own . |
| 21 | He felt the hypodermic-gun pressed against his neck and tried to squirm away , struggling against the strong hand that held his shoulder , but it was too late . |
| 22 | The picture began to tremble in the hand that held it . |
| 23 | When it was pressed again , doggedly but almost blindly , he struck the questing sword expertly out of the hand that held it , with only the measured force required , and reached a hand eagerly to his adversary as he crumpled to his knees . |
| 24 | It was that final little hand that beat me . |
| 25 | The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble over a non-existent obstacle , there was a blackness before her eyes and she would have fallen but for his lightning reactions and the strong hand that grasped her elbow , supporting her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Frankie pulled back against the hand that gripped him . |
| 29 | His lips were firm and damp enough , the hand that caressed her face dry and sinewy . |
| 30 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |