Example sentences of "[adv] wrapped [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 2 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |
| 3 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 4 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 5 | The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ex-Loop-ers Neil and drummer John originally formed the Traders as an offshoot-cum-hobby when Loop took an extended break from music , but are now wrapped up in the band full-time . |
| 8 | But , well wrapped up in the story , the device certainly worked well enough for the crime reviewers of that year to vote the book the Gold Dagger award . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In his opinion , he received little attention from his wife : ‘ She 's completely wrapped up in the children . |
| 11 | 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 ? |