Example sentences of "arm [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side .
2 Eugene Forster was in his bath , drawing contentedly on a cigar , tumbler of whisky and water held in his hand , arm laid languidly along the tiled border .
3 ‘ Then I saw a leg and arm sticking out of the side and realised Stuart was underneath it .
4 A TEENAGER had his arm ripped off at the shoulder by a cement mixer yesterday .
5 The upper arm lies well against the body , but not too tightly .
6 A stone hurled at a raised arm splashing casually in the approach , or the noise of stones crunched underfoot , was sufficient reminder of more deadly missiles that would come the way of a careless visitor on an enemy beach .
7 A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope .
8 And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is .
9 Car 3 of 1885 is seen with its 20-foot trolley arm reaching across to the overhead line above the kerb .
10 She swivelled round , one arm rubbing away in the oven .
11 With something less than her usual grace she sat down in the stern , then tensed as Michele lowered his lean body into the space beside her , his arm stretched casually along the back of the ornate black wooden seat .
12 He was sitting on the couch facing her , his arm stretched out along the back .
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