Example sentences of "[prep] her arm [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke grabbed hold of her arm and brought her up short , half dragging her through , banging the kitchen door shut behind them . |
| 2 | Taking her completely by surprise , he caught hold of her arm and pulled her towards him . |
| 3 | Ross said , taking hold of her arm and leading her through the wide arched entrance of the building , towards a bank of lifts . |
| 4 | Her father stared down at her before taking hold of her arm and pulling her to her feet . |
| 5 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 6 | Without any sign of hurry , or the slightest flicker of emotion , he took hold of her arm and removed it , just as the exploring fingers were about to reach their objective . |
| 7 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 8 | Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone . |
| 9 | As the confused little boy eyed her warily , Kerry tenderly drew him into her arms and sobbed : ‘ I wish you were Ben . |
| 10 | Smallfry 's beautiful bed had become saturated with sticky red blood , but she had pulled Frankie into her arms and laughed and laughed with happiness because now the hated Tom Fish could never do dirty things to her again . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , my love , ’ Ashley said , and ran forward to sweep him up into her arms and bury his head against her shoulder . |
| 12 | His mother is there immediately , scooping up her son into her arms and checking him over . |
| 13 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 14 | He put his hands under her arms and raised her up , turning her about , away from the AV . |
| 15 | She tucked the parcel under her arm and ran . |
| 16 | He put a hand under her arm and turned her towards a silver-grey Rolls that took up all the parking space outside her shop . |
| 17 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 18 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 19 | She chose a rock facing the window , a low rock , and sat down on it , circling her bent knees with her arms and resting her chin on her knees . |
| 20 | Putting her mug down , she rubbed her fingers along her arm and tried to chafe some heat into her cool flesh . |
| 21 | She hugged Nicholas in her arms and rocked him backwards and forwards in the basket-backed rocking chair , in the damp Islington basement , night after night , morning after morning , holding on to him in his little cream Viyella nightdress and blue sleeping bag . |
| 22 | The baby deer nestled in her arms and looked at them with enormous brown unconcerned eyes . |
| 23 | Georgina took him in her arms and kissed him on the lips . |
| 24 | Shiona gathered her up in her arms and kissed her . |
| 25 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 26 | And she got hold of me in her arms and carried me kicking and screaming into the school . |
| 27 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 28 | He had the worry and responsibility of his sister on his shoulders , and she wished she could take him in her arms and comfort him . |
| 29 | She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake . |
| 30 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |