Example sentences of "hemmed in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hemmed in by idle readers , and knots of little boys scrabbling through the boxes of Beanos , Magnets , and Boy 's Own annuals , he waved back with a weary smile . |
| 2 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 3 | What the tourists come to see is a raised dais of grass hemmed in by a retaining wall . |
| 4 | The son learned his football in a shared backyard or on ‘ patches of grit and oily grass , hemmed in by the crouched streets , with the rusty swings and roundabouts , which creaked under a cafuffle of ragged children . |
| 5 | Being hemmed in , mostly . ’ |
| 6 | He felt small and feeble , hemmed in by five or six big broad-shouldered workmen . |
| 7 | Now they were in the home stretch , and Sir Ivor seemed hopelessly hemmed in as the American horses pushed for the wire . |
| 8 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 9 | South of San Francisco , hemmed in by housing developments and shopping malls , the ancient Livermore Valley vineyards survive by the skin of their grapes . |
| 10 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 11 | It has led on repeated occasions to a sense of being hemmed in , of which the doctrine of Lebensraum was the most extreme example . |
| 12 | This sensation of being hemmed in in the middle of Europe was heightened by the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 , although it was Bismarck 's great achievement that he united his country in concert with the other nations of Europe . |
| 13 | Further upstream , now hemmed in by the Newent bypass and the sewage works , almost cowering under the bypass bridge , in Cleeve Mill lane , stands Cleeve Mill . |
| 14 | Cloth Fair was a narrow , gloomy street , hemmed in by tall Georgian buildings . |
| 15 | Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula . |
| 16 | Her mother , Avril , felt trapped , tired and depressed , hemmed in by the demands of a fretful strong-willed toddler , ten-year-old John , who was beginning to refuse to go to school , and her ‘ selfish ’ husband , James . |
| 17 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 18 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 19 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 20 | Therefore , the less this inner consciousness or Life Force is hemmed in by an instinctive mind structure , then the greater is the capacity for caring feeling and the more an offspring is capable of learning . |
| 21 | When , after five or six miles [ 8–10 km ] , his men reached another defile , between Loch Lochy and a steeply sloping mountain to the east , they found the Highlanders had arrived before them , and after a brisk action , in which he eventually found himself hemmed in on three sides , Scott , himself wounded , and with two men dead , accepted terms of surrender . |
| 22 | But the main force of transports , along with the fleet intended to escort it , was still hemmed in by Hawkes 's blockade . |
| 23 | Grégoire was now hemmed in by the tiny precarious wine table . |
| 24 | My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts , was part of the plan . |
| 25 | She is , however , hemmed in by the Adversary . |
| 26 | This steep , narrow , 800 metres couloir , hemmed in by the famous Gervasutti Pillar and the Three Points Pillar , and first climbed by Boivin and Gabarrou in 1975 , had always held a tremendous mystique for me . |
| 27 | But during late March when they were hemmed in , there were many rumours unsettling the less resolute , even though their officers kept them occupied , leaving little time for worry . |
| 28 | Everything was noisy , dirty , speedy , and everywhere one was hemmed in by houses , traffic , and people , people , people . |
| 29 | Paula , 35 , did n't allow herself to be hemmed in by the dearth of mini-skirts on offer at the show in the Victoria and Albert museum . |
| 30 | One wonders if the Captain-General had any idea of the utter impossibility of navigating at 75°S , for on this longitudinal track his ships would be stuck fast in the thick ice-of the Weddell Sea , hemmed in by the unimagined continent and unendurable cold of the Antarctic . |