Example sentences of "arm [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Georgina took him in her arms and kissed him on the lips . |
2 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
3 | She arched against him , unable to control the flames of desire leaping within her , then a gasp escaped her as he swept her into his arms and carried her to the double bed in her aunt 's room . |
4 | He swung her up into his arms and carried her over the threshold into the shadowy interior and beyond to the shuttered darkness of the bedroom . |
5 | Lifting her bodily from it , he scooped her up into his arms and carried her into the cottage . |
6 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
7 | Luke scooped the fish up from Carey 's arms and threw it into the shallows . |
8 | What does it matter ? she thought , as Luke scooped her into his arms and moved her round the room . |
9 | Maggie scraped the radiant atoms off Hermione 's arms and juggled them in the air , but she was giggling too much and kept missing the rhythm . |
10 | He took the Englishman by the arm and ushered him toward the easy chairs arranged around a long rectangular coffee table . |
11 | When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out , he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave . |
12 | Lucenzo swept over to her , caught her arm and dragged her to the entrance of the ballroom . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Melissa took her by the arm and piloted her through the booking hall . |
15 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
16 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
17 | He smiled at her , took her arm and led her to the window . |
18 | He smiled again , fleetingly , and her pulse gave another blip as he took her arm and led her through the entrance . |
19 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
20 | As he took his hostess 's arm and led her into the dining-room , he did not glance again at Madeleine . |
21 | After the caretaker had unlocked the big front door and disappeared down the drive , Harry took Madeleine 's arm and led her into the drawing-room . |
22 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
23 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
24 | Tommy took him by the arm and led him to the chair . |
25 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
26 | I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall . |
27 | Instead he offered Lucille his arm and walked her off the floor . |
28 | Something clouted his left shoulder with a blow that numbed the arm and knocked him across the cockpit . |
29 | The farmer was silent as I soaped my arm and inserted it into the cow . |
30 | 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 . |