Example sentences of "[adv] [art] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 2 | Then all the young gentlemen came up to him and shook both his hands very hard , especially the hand which held his few possessions . |
| 3 | If , under its influence , normal physical functions could be suspended , perhaps the hand of death , too , could be stayed . |
| 4 | She had forgotten to bring her gloves and so the hand that she thrust out to break her fall sank into the cold , muddy turf . |
| 5 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |
| 6 | But Danjit was only the hand that held the vibroblade . |
| 7 | Suddenly a hand slapped his shoulder . |
| 8 | Suddenly a hand shot up in the foreground of my view , something glistened purple in its fingers . |
| 9 | If cells in the progress zone of the mouse limb bud or the chick limb bud are damaged often merely a hand develops attached to the shoulder and this may provide a basis for understanding the effects of thalidomide . |
| 10 | It shows an exasperated Royal — we do n't know which , since only a hand is visible — wondering how to store the vast pile of gifts from a grateful Canada . |
| 11 | Ben eased forward until his face was pressed against the glass , watching Gosse slow his breathing and focus his whole being upon the blade resting only a hand 's length from his stomach . |
| 12 | ‘ You should be more careful , ’ he said , coming up to her , his fingers reaching up to smooth the horse 's flank only a hand 's length from her knee . |
| 13 | This time the boy set the stone down in the south , in shang , only a hand 's length from Tuan Ti Fo 's knee . |
| 14 | He prised away the hand , which still gripped his shoulder . |
| 15 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 16 | With further outgrowth the radius and ulna develop within the inner mass of cells , then the wrist , and finally the hand with its digits . |
| 17 | The tongue , quoth he , which insulted you is no longer a tongue , and the hand which wronged you is no longer a hand . |
| 18 | Not very seriously — just a hand up her dress — but they felt they would prefer a better neighbourhood . |
| 19 | I quickly discovered that this fish was quite happy for me to take him in my hand , and from that day on I never used a net to catch him , just a hand and a plastic bowl to put him in . |
| 20 | But still the hand , |
| 21 | Contemporary reasons for continuing to build large barns included the view that grain was better housed in barns than in ricks and was always a hand to be threshed , while the cost of thatching ricks was avoided and savings were made by avoiding the double-handling generated by moving ricks to the barn for threshing . |
| 22 | And if that fails , and there is still no hand of man apparent in the removal , then it will be time to consider a rational judgement . |
| 23 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 24 | But our own food supply is being decimated around us and hardly a hand is being raised . |
| 25 | He had already shown his mettle on February 13 that year by leading what the Gable guide calls ‘ The archetypal Hard Severe ’ , namely the hand traverse variant on Pillar Rock 's North Climb . |
| 26 | 15 It causes the muscle to contract and hence the hand is pulled away from the pin . |
| 27 | It is also the hand tooling parts that aggravate the neck and shoulder aches that knitters are prone too , so the linker alleviates that as well . |
| 28 | However , after 1979 this success failed to keep regional policy intact , when it reflected all too clearly the hand of State intervention . |
| 29 | The double stapling technique was never applicable in these cases because of the widely dilated and thick walled anus ; hence a hand sewn ileoanal anastomosis was required . |
| 30 | I BRING you today a hand from a recent teams match where the number of tricks made in the same final contract was eleven in one room , but only six in the other . |