1.   She shook off his restraining hand.

2.   Melissa put out a restraining hand.

3.   Richie angrily shook off the restraining hand.

4.   Wynne-Jones put out a restraining hand, eyes fixed on the slender creature that stood before them.

5.   Catesby, if he had stayed, might have put a restraining hand upon the petty malice of his comrades.

6.   Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded.

7.   Mahmoud sensed the movement and put out a restraining hand.

8.   Lauder also seemed to exert a restraining hand in Washington.