"Officer Bowman is the one that when he arrived, really started wailing on Mr Boyd, meaning Mr Boyd was on the ground in a prone position and Bowman sat on him, almost straddled his back, and put his left arm under Boyd's neck and pulled his head up in a choking fashion".
These include his portrait of Christine Keeler, almost nude, straddling Morley's studio chair, which was bought in a sale at Heal's furniture store and based on an Arne Jacobsen original design classic.
Bismarck answered almost immediately, straddling Rodney on her second salvo.
Between the three of them, the Alte, Neue and Moderne Pinakothek museums comprise one of the world's great art collections, straddling almost every European master from the Middle Ages to the Weimar Republic.
And, almost accidentally, I found myself straddling two lives: a new one I was starting in Los Angeles, and the one I had left in New York.
Since Detour's launch almost a year ago, the startup has been straddling two sides of its business.
Most had been sexually assaulted and then shot with the same small-caliber handgun, and almost all were killed along one corridor straddling Western Avenue — which passed 200 feet west of Franklin's home on West 81st Street.
To many it may seem that that this terrorist organisation claiming to be a new country exploded on the scene almost out of nowhere - to claim an area straddling two countries.
At the end of "Almost Obscene," Joe Raiola, having fallen off a chair he had been straddling backward, and raising himself hesitantly from his sprawl, says, "I'm in a mess, and honestly I don't know the way out".
His location was part of Mexican folklore, with rumors circulating of him being everywhere from Guatemala to almost every corner of Mexico, especially its "Golden Triangle", a mountainous, marijuana-growing region straddling the northern states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua.
