McDermott sat with his arms folded as the disturbing details of the assaults were read out.

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As the lawyers and their assistants leafed through their papers and readied themselves, Mr Bemba sat behind his defence counsel, with his arms folded and a look of defiance flickering across his face.

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He never gives interviews, and the only photograph of him to appear regularly in the press shows an unremarkable middle-aged man with a quizzical look on his face and his arms folded protectively in front of him.

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He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.

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Glasgow, who had been taking notes, laid down his pen, folded his arms and looked straight back at Peterson.

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Mr. Miller folded his arms and shot me a penetrating look.

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Julian folded his arms.

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