Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the tiles are copies of ones found in the foundations and they 're hung on hand split oak lathes . |
| 2 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 3 | She did the bending and the kneeling , and they worked together hand in glove . |
| 4 | We nailed down hand model Sara Francis and discovered some well-kept secrets : |
| 5 | While the crowds at the Broadgate arena were treated to a medley of Disney hits , including ‘ Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ’ and ‘ Whistle While You Work ’ , the obligatory Disney characters were wheeled out hand in hand with the company 's key executives . |
| 6 | The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her . |
| 7 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 8 | In the days of calculators and computers , we no longer use log tables to speed up hand calculations . |
| 9 | Polish nationalism and Polish Romanticism grew up hand in hand . |
| 10 | Quality and efficiency go firmly hand in hand . |
| 11 | The boy gave a neck bow but offered neither hand nor eye to Theodora . |
| 12 | He did not hand out sayings of Jesus in a little red book , or give them Christmas presents . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Do not hand over the job of introducing formal appraisal to the personnel or organizational experts . |
| 16 | DSS officers do not hand out money lightly , but look for evidence to support claims . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 19 | For another , it does not hand out new cars as it used to . |
| 20 | ready to ta , that 's what I said to him you 're always ready to take out hand outs , what ever 's there to be handed out , you know . |
| 21 | Paper is best reserved for drying particularly hand drying . |
| 22 | Lucker and I return silently hand in hand to the apartment . |
| 23 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |