Example sentences of "[art] arm [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Amyas took her by the arm and helped her to her feet . |
| 32 | As she went to walk past , Willi grabbed her by the arm and pushed her , quite roughly , into the passenger seat . |
| 33 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 34 | My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over . |
| 35 | He took Laura by the arm and guided her through the revolving doors . |
| 36 | Doctor McCann grabbed him by the arm and held him . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | He put out an arm and dropped it as soon as it touched her , as if its contact stung him . |
| 39 | Balor gave a last bubbling cry and a sudden ripple of triumph went through the Trees as the farthest of the Oaks pulled free an arm and held it aloft , a bloody stump , a torn-off gobbet of flesh . |