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Holding one of those, touching its yellow skin, is creepy — what if it suddenly shook your hand in return?
He looked stressed and I just said to him: 'Do you need some help?'" So much for a hand in return.
"Well, hello, young lady," he said jovially, bending down to shake the hand of Judge Roberts's 5-year-old daughter, Josephine, who demurely extended her own hand in return.
"In the social care field, there is a lot of concern from older and vulnerable people about contacting a charity," says Andy Murphy, chief executive of Homeshare, which was honoured last year for its work matching elderly householders with young people able to keep an eye on their welfare, and to lend a hand, in return for a cheap room.
In the book and in his only pre-publication interview, Blair reveals that: Brown personally threatened to bring him down over the loans for honours scandal in 2006, before offering to stay his hand in return for the abandonment of Lord Turner's plans to reform pensions.
St James Palacee has said the Prince will place a band on his bride's finger during the Westminster Abbey ceremony - but she will not place one on his hand in return.
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They were promised a new beginning and a helping hand in returning to the civilian lives that many of them hardly knew.
Instead, the Bank of England simply presses cash into the banks' hands in return for assets like shares and mortgage contracts.
The document is clear: wads of cash may not change hands in return for poor motherless mites.These rules look fine on paper but are difficult to enforce.
While the football has taken centre stage, the press had been awash with rumours of money changing hands in return for improved, or uninspired, performances.
They insisted they had been honestly trying to broker the return of the 500-year-old painting – ofe onlynly two Da Vinci paintings in private hands – in return for what they believed was a fair reward.
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