Example sentences of "in at [art] waist " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 2 | Alison was wearing her dress of feathery blue cotton , bound in at the waist , her red hair was tousled , her freckled face not darkened , illuminated rather , by the sun , her pale skin delicately , milkily , opaque and her unpainted lips the faintest purest pink . |
| 3 | Less common was the Doric peplos , a sleeveless tunic with overfold gathered in at the waist , the whole pinned or buttoned at the shoulders . |
| 4 | She was getting quite neurotic , Harriet reflected , and the same thought occurred to her now as she checked her image in the full length mirror , tucking her camisole top more neatly in at the waist of her pants and straightening the ornamental clasp of the loose belt she had fastened around her hips . |
| 5 | The jacket of the suit curved in at the waist and at the back were two buttons above a pair of tails . |
| 6 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 7 | Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle . |
| 8 | There she was in a conventional two-piece suit , fine dark wool , muted geometrical pattern in greens and unexpected straw browns , caught in at the waist — still very thin — to give the effect of a bustle , the skirt long and straight to the knee . |
| 9 | Nothing white should ever be taken in at the waist . |