Example sentences of "curled up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Zeinab curled up on a divan , deliberately provocatively , thought Owen , and ate Turkish Delight . |
| 5 | 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 — |
| 6 | She discovered Jackie curled up behind a bale , the blue eyes shut . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She lay perfectly still , curled up like a ball , rapturous that she was being fucked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mariana slept restlessly , curled up like a child . |
| 11 | ’ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 13 | Injured Kevin Mc Alynne , 30 , said : ‘ I felt 10 or 15 kicks and curled up in a ball . |
| 14 | Now she curled up in a ball , hunched , defeated . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could imagine the girl curled up in a cupboard , trying to breathe noiselessly , willing her heartbeat to be less loud . |
| 17 | I fell asleep on the Circle Line and had to retrack from South Kensington to Victoria , curled up in a corner seat in the warm tube . |
| 18 | By now the sounds of his waking hours were familiar to the boy curled up in an army greatcoat in the room below . |
| 19 | She ghosted past me , and curled up in an armchair . |