Example sentences of "curled up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Willie crawled under the bed and curled up into a ball . |
| 2 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 3 | And curled up into a questionmark . |
| 4 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 5 | So if ordinary paper labels curled up during the manufacturing process , they would take the vinyl with them , resulting in a warped disc . |
| 6 | Zeinab curled up on a divan , deliberately provocatively , thought Owen , and ate Turkish Delight . |
| 7 | He squashed the image of her curled up on a chair , feet tucked under her neat little bottom , waiting for him , her eyes drowsy and heavy-lidded — |
| 8 | If you want to spend your Sundays curled up on the sofa , watching television , and having a few drinks , why not ? |
| 9 | They took the brandy into the sitting room and lit the gas fire and curled up on the sofa . |
| 10 | He took off his clothes , and Isobel curled up on the bed watching him , like a little cat . |
| 11 | She yawned , curled up on the bed and scratched at her ankles . |
| 12 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 13 | She curled up on the floor and leaned against the arm of Morris 's chair . |
| 14 | Pike curled up on the floor . |
| 15 | Then she lit a cigarette and curled up on the window-seat . |
| 16 | Breeze , curled up on the hearthrug in her favourite attitude , watched her and wondered when , if ever , she would hear her play again . |
| 17 | You in your small comer , Gwen curled up on the mat and Connon taking his ease in Arthur 's rocking chair . ’ |
| 18 | The boy was asleep , curled up with the dog . |
| 19 | She discovered Jackie curled up behind a bale , the blue eyes shut . |
| 20 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 21 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 22 | She lay perfectly still , curled up like a ball , rapturous that she was being fucked . |
| 23 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 24 | Mariana slept restlessly , curled up like a child . |
| 25 | ’ No kids , no heavy relationships , no sweat , ’ she says in her blunt way , curled up like an imp , smoking like a chimney , in one of her mother 's immaculate armchairs , a vision of bleached cropped hair , bright pink baggy cotton trousers , black eyes heavily rimmed with mascara . |
| 26 | The sea , rather than dipping to the horizon , curled up like the lip of a dish . |
| 27 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 28 | Injured Kevin Mc Alynne , 30 , said : ‘ I felt 10 or 15 kicks and curled up in a ball . |
| 29 | Now she curled up in a ball , hunched , defeated . |
| 30 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |