Example sentences of "[adv] wrapped [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 2 | Only then did Chesarynth realize that he 'd started , so wrapped up in her anxiety was she . |
| 3 | Steve sat as mute as herself but she was so wrapped up in her own misery that she did n't question why he was so quiet . |
| 4 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 5 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 6 | They 're they 're probably so wrapped up in their devotion that they do n't bother about standard commercial morality , it was sh a shocking thing to do ! |
| 7 | Maybe you do — you 're so wrapped up in your rotten selfishness that you ca n't see anyone else . ’ |
| 8 | May we never become so wrapped up in our own trivial problems that we forget to care about anyone else . |
| 9 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 10 | Marin Marais ( Depardieu ) is cruel and self-obsessed while Sainte Colombe ( Marielle ) is so wrapped up in his own private world of misery , he shuts out his family and the world . |
| 11 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |
| 12 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 13 | Though some people found him rather wrapped up in his thoughts , he always enjoyed talking to children about science . |
| 14 | ‘ Always wrapped up in my own concerns . |
| 15 | Edmund spoke of him movingly , as a devoted parent , completely wrapped up in his Suffolk estate and the care of his tenants . |
| 16 | They are far too wrapped up in their own small struggles to worry overmuch about what others are doing and why . |
| 17 | Most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered that other people 's freedoms and rights are being infringed , until it happens to them , and then it 's too late . ’ |
| 18 | ’ They never have any trouble with their parents most of them are too wrapped up in their work and their money to take an interest in what their children are doing anyway . |
| 19 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 20 | But she 'd probably been too wrapped up in her own misery to notice anyone elses . |
| 21 | Leonora , too wrapped up in her thoughts to be afraid , smiled back , unconcerned . |
| 22 | ‘ Too wrapped up in your precious Ryan to bother ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have classed you as too wrapped up in your own virtuous opinions to be much good at listening to other people 's . ’ |
| 24 | Oh , he 's too wrapped up in his work to bother about his wife . |
| 25 | My second sin was being too wrapped up in my boyfriend , who was definitely a moody character . |
| 26 | She had a huge holdall with her — I should have been suspicious , but I was n't , I was too wrapped up in my own problems . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |