Example sentences of "[noun pl] rolled [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 2 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 3 | The wet skirt and jumper , and the black , curly wig now hang across two chairbacks , before the hearth ; their owner , I think , looks rather fetching if completely out of character — in one of Anya 's flannel shirts and a pair of faded denims with the cuffs rolled up . |
| 4 | Desmond Fairchild , paddling through the spotlights , his trousers rolled up to his hairy knees , shouted something at her . |
| 5 | There Pierre and his thirteen-year-old mousse , or assistant , would join me — Pierre in sea-boots , jacket and cap , the mousse bare-headed and barefoot , in a ragged sweater , with his trousers rolled up about his knees . |
| 6 | This is why comic picture-postcards of the time show people at the seaside , paddling in the sea with their trouser-legs rolled up to the knee , or little girls with their dresses tucked into their knickers . |
| 7 | Tom sat with his shirt-sleeves rolled up , the beads of sweat trickling down the sides of his ruddy face while Willie continued to shiver , managing only to drink half a cup of tea and eat a small piece of bread . |
| 8 | Tears rolled out of the eyes . |
| 9 | Sally with her slaves rolled up and her hands black with ashes from the dead fire . |
| 10 | No lava at all was erupted , but great dark cauliflower explosion-clouds rolled out of it , laying a thin carpet of ash downwind of the vent . |
| 11 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 12 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 13 | He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up . |
| 14 | Unless it was pouring with rain he wore no hat or coat , his shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbow and wearing a green baize apron . |
| 15 | The boss , Mr. Uphill , always had his sleeves rolled up way past the elbows — whether for comfort or to exhibit the many tattoos which covered his arms is anyone 's guess . |
| 16 | The barman was a beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms . |
| 17 | He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless . |
| 18 | Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up . |
| 19 | Hugh drank a beer ; with his sleeves rolled up he looked masculine and masterful , in charge of his family on the journey his wife had planned for so long . |
| 20 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 21 | Léonie , with her sleeves rolled up and Victorine 's big blue overall wrapped round her , held the smeared plates under the hot tap , dunked them into the soapy water in the yellowing plastic bowl in the enamel sink , stacked them in the wooden rack on the tin draining-board . |
| 22 | Outside the Freitas cottage Abuelo sat on his usual rocking chair , and beside him sat Constance , also rocking , dressed in old cotton trousers and a loose shirt with the sleeves rolled up . |
| 23 | You want to have your sleeves rolled up ? |
| 24 | The bruises on his wrists showed like diamonds beneath Boy 's cuff ; he was wearing one of O 's white shirts , with the sleeves rolled down . |
| 25 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 26 | He remembered how the fish lay gaping on its bed of newspaper , the flesh dark-red and subtly ribbed where it was split in half , and Yvonne with her sleeves rolled back and her wrists dipped in blood that smelt of tin . |
| 27 | He had changed into a cotton shirt with the sleeves rolled back and a pair of faded black jeans that hugged the contours of his body . |
| 28 | He was dressed in a pair of faded black jeans and a striped blue shirt with the sleeves rolled back . |
| 29 | He had his shirtsleeves rolled up and his arms folded like piled-up hocks of ham . |
| 30 | I got on the train and settled myself in a corner compartment with my back to the engine , feeling pissed and happy as the carriages rolled out of Victoria towards Clapham Junction and the South Coast . |