Example sentences of "be in thrall to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 2 | But through his eyes Watson was enabled to describe events of the utmost absurdity in a way that makes you believe , if only while you are in thrall to each book , that they really might have happened . |
| 3 | As for being free — to be in thrall to a ruling obsession is hardly to exist in a state of freedom . |
| 4 | Last night you were in thrall to your emotions . |
| 5 | In truth , the profession in Britain is in thrall to a near monopoly employer ( the NHS ) in tandem with a regulatory quango ( the GMC ) and litigious ‘ consumers ’ egged on by citizens ' charters . |
| 6 | ‘ It is in thrall to a Necromancer of the highest order and the Wolfking is dead . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 8 | But he was in thrall to Deuce , who now reappeared in the distance followed by an over-liveried porter who was carrying two large suitcases . |
| 9 | Warrior indebtedness to the merchant class became endemic until , by the late Tokugawa period , the ruling stratum was in thrall to those it purported most to despise . |