Example sentences of "shoulder [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught her ankle , lunging at her , took her by the shoulders and flung her on to her back , his breathing hoarse and his eyes blazing with fury . |
| 2 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 3 | Jack looped an arm round her shoulders and tugged her up against his side . |
| 4 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 5 | She took her arms away from round her kids ' shoulders and held them out for him . |
| 6 | He took her by the shoulders and pulled her back against him sharply . |
| 7 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 8 | He put an arm round my shoulder and walked me back towards the church door . |
| 9 | He lifted the parrot off his shoulder and launched it out of the airlock . |
| 10 | Just hours after Lisa 's mother confirmed the 21-year-old model was seeing Princess Diana 's friend James Gilbey , fiery Marco wrapped a protective arm around her shoulder and escorted her back to her family home in Fulham , west London . |
| 11 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |