Example sentences of "his arms [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her breath , as she smiled , began to catch in weak , involuntary sobs ; so that he bent over her , his cheek against hers , his arms embracing hers in spectral and impotent comfort . |
| 2 | Then he was beside her , laying his length , his arms seizing her to him , and his lips , no longer teasing or gentle , dragging at hers . |
| 3 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 4 | His body was warm and hard against her own shivering flesh , his arms binding her to him as her reason spun helplessly beneath the sudden sensual onslaught . |
| 5 | He then unclipped his seatbelt and turned towards her , his arms enfolding her as he murmured , ‘ You are a dear girl . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're the one who 's simply wonderful ! ’ he breathed , his arms enfolding her once more . |
| 7 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 8 | I turned away , I remember , so that Enid should not see my face , and thought of his arms holding me , and his hands in my hair and his mouth … oh , such a melting , a melting in my stomach . |