Example sentences of "hand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his hands the concerto was over-dramatic , his tendency in the louder passages to attack the keys from some height with a hard pecking action , and to shorten the staccato and overdo the sforzandi , being foreign to Beethoven 's style . |
| 2 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 3 | As we shook hands the Frenchman said very slowly in French , ‘ Monsieur , we are very pleased to see you here in Normandy . |
| 4 | Balcon echoed Korda with his pledge that Ealing Studios would ‘ grasp with both hands the opportunity of putting every phase of the war on to the screen . ’ |
| 5 | Denice hands the waiter her coat ( Christian Lacroix ) , and then we hand over our umbrella ( from a sweatshop somewhere in Korea ) . |
| 6 | Peters saw their reactions and knew instinctively that he was going to have one hell of a fight on his hands the next day to convince the committee of his vehicle division proposals . |
| 7 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 8 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 9 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 10 | There is some fear among lay people that this is so , that the doctor gives up and hands the patient over to those nursing him . |
| 11 | Hands are also important in body language , usually to provide points of emphasis , while shaping with the hands the object being discussed , or an event , or signalling directions . |
| 12 | ‘ Is she ? ’ he asked , and with a kind of conspiratorial look he drew in the air with both hands the figure of eight — representing the standard desirable female shape . |
| 13 | In June one of the pillars of the British economy tumbled into foreign hands the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank declared that its £3.7bn bid for Midland Bank was unconditional , and had been accepted by more than 90% of its shareholders . |
| 14 | When this failed , the Scots withdrew from England , after having their expenses paid by Parliament , in whose hands the King was left . |
| 15 | Ex-Great Britain assistant team boss Larder hands the full-back jersey to Davies for the tough opener against Castleford following the departure of Alan Tait to Leeds . |
| 16 | ‘ We have in our hands the letter of donation signed by Dr Kramar and the testimonies of many people from Prague art circles of the 1940s and 1950s ’ , Dr Lubomir Slavicek told The Art Newspaper shortly before his dismissal as director of the National Gallery in February . |
| 17 | DILEMMA NO MORE AS IBM HANDS THE PRISONERS THE KEY TO THE JAILHOUSE |
| 18 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 19 | Sir , — I am indebted to Mrs Swindin for her lucid article of May 10 , in which she explains in whose hands the Suffolk County Council has been in until quite recently . |
| 20 | The receptionist welcomes the guests with a smile and greeting , hands the pen to them and asks if they will kindly complete the registration form ( Fig. 3.8 ) or sign the hotel register ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 21 | Many of the latter looked on politics and politicians with a jaundiced eye and held in their hands the means of destroying ill-prepared , amateurish candidates . |
| 22 | Liz locks up and hands the keys to the security staff . |
| 23 | ‘ If the plutonium were to fall into the wrong hands the results could be catastrophic . |
| 24 | In his hands the Scherzo , which like all Chopin 's Scherzos is in rapid triple time , becomes a compelling answer to Liszt 's Mephisto Waltz ( written so many years later ) . |
| 25 | When the French nobility , in whose hands the resolution of such a crisis lay , made its choice , that choice was to make one of their number , Philip , count of Valois , king . |
| 26 | A parade of martyred scientists would show by whose hands the real errors had been committed . |
| 27 | Above the bird hands the new moon and a steady planet ’ . |
| 28 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 29 | Parents had , inevitably in a Direct Grant school , always been closely involved since they were , numerically , the biggest source of income for new building projects , which could not be financed from fees ; but the only formal organization had been the Ladies ' Committee , in whose capable hands the Autumn Fairs and Scandinavian Evenings had prospered over the years . |
| 30 | They argue that ‘ directors and top executives , in whose hands the major strategic decisions lie , are , in fact , owners of large stockholdings themselves ’ . |