Example sentences of "naked except [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 2 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 3 | He was naked except for a bow tie — a nice touch , that . |
| 4 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 5 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
| 6 | A woman , naked except for an unbuttoned faded red blouse , tumbles out . |
| 7 | A dazzle of green and red spotlights explodes onto the dais in front of them , revealing a bamboo cage containing a girl naked except for tassels and a G-string . |
| 8 | Lustful travellers came from all over the world to watch him dance , naked except for a silk cap atop his curls . |
| 9 | His body , naked except for a pair of socks , was found dumped on wasteland near a bus depot in Shepherd 's Bush later that afternoon . |
| 10 | She was lying on her back , naked except for a short wrapover dressing gown from which one blue-veined breast had escaped and lay like a quivering jellyfish against the pink satin . |
| 11 | Sitting in the tub , naked except for a top hat , BONO whiles away the evening playing Monopoly with the ancient Chinese philosopher LEI PING ) |
| 12 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |
| 13 | Iain had been telling us how ten to fifteen thousand years ago early man had crossed from Mongolia to Alaska by way of the Aleutian chain of volcanic islands and then , over a period of some five millennia , had worked his way down through North and South America until finally he had reached Tierra del Fuego , living out the winters virtually naked except for the natural hair of his body . |
| 14 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 15 | He was naked except for a pair of shorts and a white towelling robe , draped over one shoulder , emphasising the strength of his bronze chest . |
| 16 | Naked except for the band round his belly ; yet something about him marked him immediately as a singular character . |
| 17 | John Lennon dropped in on it , and got embarrassed when the poet , naked except for a pair of underpants draped round his head , kissed him on the cheek . |
| 18 | There is much gold about his person , in the form of anklets and wristlets , but otherwise he is naked except for a leopardskin loincloth . |
| 19 | He appeared to be naked except for a pair of high boots , a tiny leather hold-all in the region of his groin , and a high-crested helmet . |
| 20 | He caught her up in his arms , carrying her through to the bedroom , disrobing her with eager , predatory fingers until she stood naked except for the glint of gold at her throat . |
| 21 | There lay a great female figure , naked except for the pipes and wires that fed or drained her . |
| 22 | Here he is , in 370 stunning pages , the youngest member of the Irish Hierarchy , by day ‘ looking truly magnificent in his episcopal robes ’ , by night naked except for his bishop 's ring , making love on an expensive Afghan rug . |
| 23 | ‘ Like Paul the hermit , alone like a bird on his rock , naked except for his hairs . |
| 24 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 25 | She too was naked except for a small towel around her shoulders . |
| 26 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |