Example sentences of "arm around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie strolled past me , his arm around a girl who had her tits hanging out , and he said , to make her laugh , ‘ Hurry up , Karim , you great girl 's blouse , you friend of Dorothy . |
| 2 | I have watched him before , watched him watching Elizabeth as he puts his arm around a girl . |
| 3 | This was originally used as a sales technique — you shook hands or put your arm around a relation or friend — the idea was to develop this — the salesperson put his/her arm around the buyer and thereby instilled a sense of security into the individual . |
| 4 | ‘ Why , thank you , ’ Maggie replied , and hooked an arm around the one extended to her . |
| 5 | I had seen his arm around the weeping mother he was leaving . |
| 6 | There is no need that ‘ hello/goodbye ’ kisses , an arm around the shoulder , a good cuddle should diminish with the years . |
| 7 | Mr Reed then went on to put his arm around the ‘ feminist ’ author Miss Katherine ‘ Kate ’ Millet and embraced her , cheek to cheek . |
| 8 | ‘ That bit about him putting his arm around the Queen has been blown up out of all proportion , ’ Fay Shaw said . |
| 9 | Quinn wrapped one arm around the thin shoulders and remembered a day long ago in the jungles along the Mekong ; the first time he was ever in combat , and how he survived while others died , and how afterwards the sheer relief caused the tears to come and he could not stop them . |
| 10 | He first caused outrage last February when he put his arm around the Queen 's waist during a Royal visit . |
| 11 | Miss Liberty put her arm around the Sandrat . |
| 12 | With a larger dog , however , place one arm around the hindquarters with the other encircling the forelimbs . |
| 13 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 14 | She hesitated a few seconds before putting her arm around the girl 's thin shoulders . |
| 15 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll tell you what 's going on , mate , ’ he said , slapping a none too friendly arm around the other 's shoulders . |
| 17 | Danny laughed , and put his arm around the beautiful young woman standing by his side . |
| 18 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Actually , that poor girl 's a bit cut up about something , ’ Leo said , putting an affectionate arm around the younger man 's shoulders as they watched Cindy in the garden . |
| 20 | 7 The defender slips an arm around the attacker 's neck to form a head lock . |
| 21 | Lorre put his arm around the bush , soothing it as if it were a favourite niece in whose person he took an unhealthy interest . |
| 22 | Meredith put her arm around the young girl 's shoulders sympathetically . |
| 23 | This was originally used as a sales technique — you shook hands or put your arm around a relation or friend — the idea was to develop this — the salesperson put his/her arm around the buyer and thereby instilled a sense of security into the individual . |
| 24 | He had not easily shaken Claudine off — not that he had tried — and his arm around the girl 's waist had irritated Jenna unbelievably . |
| 25 | Across the gloomy interior , Tallis could see Scathach crouched by the straw mattress , his arm around the back of the old man 's head . |
| 26 | From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono . |
| 27 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 28 | The smoked-glass doors of Swift were closed and the Mercedes had long ago pulled into the traffic , but she just kept seeing it in her mind , Damian striding along with his arm around the beautiful Domino . |
| 29 | Basically the minority who think about northern politics saw the good guy with his arm around the bad guy , at a time when bombs were still going off . |