Example sentences of "hem in by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression had descended on her , hemmed in by all these people , driving along a straight dreary road . |
| 2 | My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts , was part of the plan . |
| 3 | But this stress was only one of several strands in the ideological construction of the bourgeois family , for sexual choice was hemmed in by simultaneous emphases on property , the survival ( and even accentuation ) of a differentiated standard of morality , and the growth of the ideology of ‘ respectability ’ , with all its class connotations . |
| 4 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 5 | He felt small and feeble , hemmed in by five or six big broad-shouldered workmen . |
| 6 | Cloth Fair was a narrow , gloomy street , hemmed in by tall Georgian buildings . |
| 7 | Entering St Jude 's Passage — her most direct approach to St Jude 's Square and the old market place which would lead her to Miss Dallam 's side of Frizingley — Cara was at once hemmed in by tall houses as sinister and insubstantial as shadows , tottering almost beneath a weight of sheer dilapidation and the load of displaced humanity they carried . |
| 8 | Finally , in the twelfth century BC , the Granary Style appeared — a very meagre type of decoration in horizontal bands — and the Close Style , in which the designs were hemmed in by dense fringes , bands , and multiple borders ; the purely decorative aspect makes it difficult to identify the motifs . |
| 9 | Hemmed in by idle readers , and knots of little boys scrabbling through the boxes of Beanos , Magnets , and Boy 's Own annuals , he waved back with a weary smile . |