Example sentences of "his arms [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are ! ’ repeated Mr Rochester , taking me in his arms and kissing me . |
| 2 | He took her in his arms and kissed her . |
| 3 | They stopped laughing ; then Edouard leaned forward , gathered her in his arms and kissed her . |
| 4 | She nodded and he pulled her into his arms and kissed her , then waved his finger in her face and said : ‘ And no drinking whisky ! ’ |
| 5 | That night , after she had confided in Tom and begun to cry , he had comforted her , held her in his arms and kissed her . |
| 6 | Nick took her in his arms and kissed her but , when his lips parted and she could taste his mouth , she drew back . |
| 7 | He was standing by the bushes near to where the gates had once been , and he took her in his arms and kissed her passionately . |
| 8 | He came through the door , and he was laughing , he took Rosalba in his arms and kissed her and they went down on to the sheepskin with soft cooing giggles and sucked and licked and flowed together in the nest like a mother cat and her kittens . |
| 9 | For five whole minutes he held her in his arms and kissed her again and again . |
| 10 | Roman pulled Claudia into his arms and kissed her deeply , taking her by surprise . |
| 11 | To a slow hand-clap , he slowly removed his mask and then hers , took her gently in his arms and kissed her tenderly . |
| 12 | When he broke off in the middle of the sentence , she glanced up at him curiously and was completely taken by surprise when he pulled her into his arms and kissed her . |
| 13 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 14 | He held his daughter in his arms and kissed her . |
| 15 | He took Juliet in his arms and kissed her . |
| 16 | She stepped into his arms and kissed him . |
| 17 | He lowered his arms and folded them , then stood regarding Caspar . |
| 18 | In that first heart-stopping moment when he realised that it really was her , his impulse had been to run to her , to grab her in his arms and smother her with kisses , to chide her for not waiting until he came back to make her his wife . |
| 19 | She was suddenly far too aware that they were alone and would n't be disturbed until morning , too aware that the man whose overpowering masculine strength filled the room was her husband and had certain rights , too aware that the last frail layer of her protective façade had been shattered forever when she had wept in his arms and let him comfort her . |
| 20 | As he saw her , he stretched out his arms and lifted her up before she had had time to reach the bottom step . |
| 21 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 22 | Adam picked her up in his arms and laid her on her desk : reports slithered off it and the Cartier clock crashed to the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ I expect that 's just convalescence , ’ said David , longing to take her in his arms and comfort her . |
| 24 | More than anything in the world she longed for Mark to take her into his arms and comfort her like a baby . |
| 25 | He took Paul up in his arms and carried him inside , laying him on the sofa . |
| 26 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 27 | In silence , Adam lifted her into his arms and carried her ( five feet nine and no lightweight ) on to the bed . |
| 28 | Lifting her bodily from it , he scooped her up into his arms and carried her into the cottage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Without another word , he swung her up into his arms and carried her back to her blanket beneath the tree . |