Example sentences of "wrapped in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hostility of the United States , and its rather too blatant financial involvement in the election campaign , may well have prolonged his regime — wrapped in the armour of outraged nationalism . |
| 2 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Key found little or no harm done to Jane Cox , but found the small body of her newborn child wrapped in the bedclothes . |
| 4 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 5 | He is frequently wrapped in the mists of carbon dioxide and seen against a background of bubbles travelling along glass tubes . |
| 6 | Within will be found at least £100 worth of books and videos backed up with a FlyPast hat and sundry other goodies — all wrapped in the widely acclaimed FlyPast plastic carrier bag . |
| 7 | Three really beautiful evening dresses , each individually wrapped in the black tissue-paper . |
| 8 | Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town , wrapped in the silence of its siesta . |
| 9 | In the distance pale trees were wrapped in the morning mists . |
| 10 | Even worse was the knowledge that the whole conversation fitted her so ill because it was wrapped in the distinct flavours of a different language . |
| 11 | Andy is wrapped in the coat and rushed to the house , submerged to the neck in a warm bath and given oxygen when the ambulance arrives . |
| 12 | Jacqui awoke to find herself still wrapped in the other woman 's arms . |
| 13 | In his imagination he saw Brückner stuffing them in to his pockets , wrapped in the clothing of the woman he had raped , while his companion murdered her . |
| 14 | i have a line and think why wait till tomorrow , we are wrapped in the present , like a seamless and infinite cloak ; past and future are convenient illusions. time passes into eternity , so i ring ( eternal symbol ) mr and mrs monster to fix it up but no answer . |
| 15 | She struggled to sit up , still wrapped in the mists of sleep , and he transferred his gaze from her shoulders to her breasts . |
| 16 | We stand wrapped in the night while I continue talking . |
| 17 | Wrapped in the rags of his banner . |
| 18 | ‘ Cosmas remained wrapped in the bedding and was burnt alive . |
| 19 | Wrapped in the warm yellow glow of the wine , Rincewind tried to think of inn-sewer-ants in Circle Sea terms . |
| 20 | Twelve of the youngest were found still wrapped in the charred bones of their mothers ' arms . |
| 21 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 22 | Bordallo , 63 , shot himself in the centre of the island 's capital Agaña , chained to the statue of a 17th century Chamorro chief and wrapped in the island 's flag . |
| 23 | Wrapped in the folds of the letter was a draft , to her , for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 24 | Wrapped in the adulation which expressed the country 's relief at being saved from a constitutional crisis , Baldwin went down to Astley in December . |
| 25 | They huddled together , wrapped in the canvas from the beached craft . |
| 26 | I produced the emerald pendant wrapped in the toilet paper . |
| 27 | Wrapped in the car rug , lying on the sofa , Sara began to feel more normal . |
| 28 | He was waiting while his vivid red roses were wrapped in the distinctive lilac and silver paper . |