Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detail of planning legislation by and large fell to a number of able officials who had a remarkably free hand . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew , ’ and he picked up his poor dead broken hand and removed the white glove . |
| 3 | When the flaking is done skilfully , only light hand pressure with a piece of wood is needed to detach long slivers of material which can themselves be used as knives . |
| 4 | ‘ I found it very illuminating , ’ she continued , and then , as her papa , his face now black with rage , advanced on her , his hand upraised , her mama 's suddenly fearful hand on his arm , as she cried to him , |
| 5 | Moreover , specimens can be handled with sufficiently fine hand drawn micropipettes and , providing the specimens are handled quickly , they can be left in unsophisticated media without serum or gassing . |
| 6 | Mistaking her refusal , Andrew put back a less prudent hand to find it struck away smartly as she retreated from the arm round her shoulders . |
| 7 | In the case of another very early practitioner , Psiax , who also worked with Andokides but whose stylistic links are with Lydos and Amasis rather than Exekias , the highly distinctive hand is unmistakable in both techniques . |
| 8 | He reached across and brushed the suddenly still hand in her lap . |
| 9 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 10 | Susan punched through the metal and pinched the fire out with a suddenly spade-sized hand . |
| 11 | Cedric grinned his sad , lopsided grin , removed the somewhat disturbing hand , and looked at her — her upper and lower lips of almost equal thickness , moist and parted , and temptingly squashable . |
| 12 | A scalpel gleamed in the doctor 's long freckled hand . |
| 13 | Only small hand weapons ( knife and dagger ) can be used in this way anyway . |
| 14 | Now I know what you 're going to say , ’ he continued , holding up one expensively gloved hand to forestall Ellie 's objections , ‘ that clothes are expensive and that you do not have the means . |
| 15 | A man once fell off the dock , with only one hand reaching above the surface . |
| 16 | Dressing is a two-handed activity which is extremely difficult to do with only one hand . |
| 17 | It is certainly true that helical structures known to assemble in this way almost invariably possess only one hand . |
| 18 | We do not know why living things possess only one hand of amino acids . |
| 19 | His brass-faced clocks had only one hand and a calendar because , in the years before bus and train timetables and television programme times , all the Dalesmen needed to know was the hour and the day . |
| 20 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's dangerous to drive with only one hand on the wheel , and I object to your touching me . ’ |
| 22 | Maggie gasped but Ana sat like a rod , a smug little smile on her face , only one hand still on the reins , no sign of panic . |
| 23 | I gripped Armstrong 's wheel — not a totally impressive gesture with only one hand — and took a deep breath . |
| 24 | With only one hand this seemed to take ages and I hoped Malpass was a slow bleeder . |
| 25 | The Assistant Commissioners ' later report mentions that Lightpill was occupied by Brown and Tucker , and that they had only two hand looms , both unemployed . |
| 26 | But the others did n't want an entirely new hand on the helm , so they gave it back to Poher . |
| 27 | Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities . |
| 28 | a little second hand . |
| 29 | Such antiquarian interest in the past laid a rather deadening hand upon contemporary sculptors . |
| 30 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |