Example sentences of "curled up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went quickly to sleep with the lights still all on , his body hot and rigid , curled up into a tight ball , and his eyes screwed up tight . |
| 2 | Willie crawled under the bed and curled up into a ball . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As the emergency airlock hatch slid shut , Christine curled up into a floating ball and was violently sick . |
| 5 | She curled up into a small ball , too tired to stay awake , but too scared to go to sleep in case she started to dream again . |
| 6 | And curled up into a questionmark . |
| 7 | Paul lay in the sunlight curled up into a little ball , quite still , and Blyth was lying on his stomach , hands under his cheek , the stump of his left leg drawn up in the flowers and the grass , sticking out from his shorts like some monstrous erection . |
| 8 | Zeinab curled up on a divan , deliberately provocatively , thought Owen , and ate Turkish Delight . |
| 9 | 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 — |
| 10 | She discovered Jackie curled up behind a bale , the blue eyes shut . |
| 11 | Mariana slept restlessly , curled up like a child . |
| 12 | She lay perfectly still , curled up like a ball , rapturous that she was being fucked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ’ 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 . |
| 16 | The figure on the floor stirred and drew in its knees , curled up like an unborn baby . |
| 17 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself curled up inside a dark cocoon , which envelops you so closely that you can barely breathe . |
| 18 | She could imagine the girl curled up in a cupboard , trying to breathe noiselessly , willing her heartbeat to be less loud . |
| 19 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 20 | Half an hour later Lee had told Philippa everything , curled up in a newly acquired floral armchair in the living-room . |
| 21 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 22 | Injured Kevin Mc Alynne , 30 , said : ‘ I felt 10 or 15 kicks and curled up in a ball . |
| 23 | The weary little hedgehog stumbled into the leafy nest and curled up in a prickly ball . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now she curled up in a ball , hunched , defeated . |
| 26 | Very cautiously , they opened the door , and saw nothing more alarming than poor Oliver , curled up in a sad little heap on the step . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart . |
| 29 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 30 | By now the sounds of his waking hours were familiar to the boy curled up in an army greatcoat in the room below . |