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 Susan punched through the metal and pinched the fire out with a suddenly spade-sized hand .
10 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 .
11 A scalpel gleamed in the doctor 's long freckled hand .
12 Only small hand weapons ( knife and dagger ) can be used in this way anyway .
13 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 .
14 But the others did n't want an entirely new hand on the helm , so they gave it back to Poher .
15 Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities .
16 Such antiquarian interest in the past laid a rather deadening hand upon contemporary sculptors .
17 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 .
18 Oh I got best bloody hand around !
19 While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand .
20 Willie returned to the dots and apart from the occasional wobble he wrote ‘ William ’ in a remarkably smooth hand .
21 Swearing as her dead left hand crashed into a chair in the dark , Jezrael made her way across the room , sat down facing him .
22 you know , so erm , I , I think a little left hand practice would solve it , I noticed that you put a five on that , I think it 's better if you put a four .
23 Along with Marlow , the strong-running front row , who is out for four to six weeks after suffering rib cartilage damage against Sheffield Eagles last Sunday , forwards Andy Dannatt , Russ Walker ( groin strains ) , Jon Sharpe ( virus ) , and talented teenage loose forward Dean Busby ( badly bruised hand ) are all doubtful .
24 Always back hand it .
25 Just always back hand it that 's what I do .
26 Ashton described the innocence , piety and wonder of the Bride at the event to be when he created the exquisitely detailed hand movements in The Wise Virgins , as he did for La Péri and Madame Chrysanthème .
27 I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand .
28 he 's got a totally short hand you know well , yeah
29 Jeane Russell also cuddled up to Judi , patting a shoulder with a diaphanously gloved hand .
30 Thérèse stared down at her mother 's little clawlike hand .
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