Example sentences of "[art] arm [that] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She drank in the clean masculine smell of him , revelling in the power of the arms that held her so tightly , the tenderness of the hands that caressed her heated skin .
2 Urgent now , she pressed again the strong body , thrilling to the arms that held her clamped there .
3 He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up .
4 She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown .
5 As soon as the plane had hit any turbulence , the springs would have popped off the arm that held them and the two buckets would have automatically deployed .
6 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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