Example sentences of "[art] arm [conj] [vb past] he " in BNC.

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1 He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face .
2 Athelstan rose , grabbed Cranston by the arm and hustled him out of the room , closing the door behind him .
3 He took the Englishman by the arm and ushered him toward the easy chairs arranged around a long rectangular coffee table .
4 At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings .
5 McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box .
6 Tommy took him by the arm and led him to the chair .
7 She took him by the arm and led him unresistingly into the house .
8 Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace .
9 When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom .
10 Something clouted his left shoulder with a blow that numbed the arm and knocked him across the cockpit .
11 The argument continued until Howard seized Toohoolhoolzote by the arm and marched him to the guardhouse , where he was locked away .
12 The day after that , Tobie was commanded to the Palace and returning , seized Loppe by the arm and marched him into the workroom John le Grant had devised for himself , where he scowled at them both .
13 Doctor McCann grabbed him by the arm and held him .
14 He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again .
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