Example sentences of "wrapped [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 2 | Each item of information is wrapped up in two lines of the file . |
| 3 | Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days . |
| 4 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 5 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 6 | She was only guessing like , cos they were all wrapped up in paper , but she said she knew . |
| 7 | They 're all wrapped up in their feathers like old men in blankets trying to keep warm . |
| 8 | They 're all wrapped up in bits of cloth and lying on all this cardboard . |
| 9 | Besides , she was very wrapped up in a world of her own . |
| 10 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 11 | May we never become so wrapped up in our own trivial problems that we forget to care about anyone else . |
| 12 | The rest were wrapped up in a fog , from drugs or cracked minds , but Anne knew exactly what was going on . |
| 13 | Beyond the garden was a fairly busy road , but all the passing drivers were wrapped up in their tin cans , insulated by Christmas drinks and trivial pursuits . |
| 14 | Fothergill wrote to Marshall , advocating William Young 's method of packing : plants safely wrapped up in moss and packed very tightly in a box . |
| 15 | But I suspected you were — well , feeling the way you did because of the way I 've been wrapped up in work , rather than because of any change in your condition . ’ |
| 16 | She is absolutely wrapped up in her children ; she is a good and devoted mother ; and others besides her children call her ‘ mother ’ because of her kind care for them . ’ |
| 17 | These objectives were wrapped up in a programme that included pledges on road safety , home helps for the elderly , bus shelters , a more comprehensive library system and the encouragement of tourism . |
| 18 | The mousy man pulled out some bread and sausage , wrapped up in a copy of the Vökischer Beobachter . |
| 19 | In his opinion , he received little attention from his wife : ‘ She 's completely wrapped up in the children . |
| 20 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 21 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 22 | seemed that my chap was wrapped up in Another — An |
| 23 | In April I make the journey to London from my home in Suffolk , with my paintings carefully wrapped up in the back of my car . |
| 24 | Wrapped up in warm clothes and armed with torches , residents from Stock Farm Lane hurriedly left their homes after receiving ‘ operation rally protest ’ calls from neighbours . |
| 25 | The Kenya administration in particular included a number of vigorous reformers , most prominent among them R.W. Hemsted and C.E.V. Buxton — both completely wrapped up in the Masai and both determined to bring them , under British supervision , into the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 27 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 28 | But I honestly ca n't validate getting seriously wrapped up in the story of the song because how on earth can you relate that to notes ? |
| 29 | When you have finally made your purchase , it is nearly always wrapped up in brown paper and carefully tied with string or something more elaborate . |
| 30 | It was wrapped up in black-and-white striped paper and twisted like a unicorn 's horn . |