Example sentences of "arms up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 2 | She lifted her arms up to the warmth of the sun , filled with a sudden wild joy . |
| 3 | Then , to quote my sister again , ‘ I took my little black kitten in my arms up to the poet to introduce it , and tall Mr Eliot bending forward to look at it remarked ‘ That 's a nice little catlet ’ ’ . |
| 4 | He was standing on a kind of pedestal a little above the others , thrusting both arms up into the air . |
| 5 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 6 | In the second half he did an extremly dainty control of the ball by sort of twisting it off his middle with his arms up in the air , towards some nearby Leeds player . |
| 7 | They seem to have curled their arms up from the mouth as five ribs and then connected them by more plates to form a sphere . |