Example sentences of "[prep] the naked " in BNC.
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| 1 | None are so efficient in obtaining specimens as the naked black , whose noiseless and gliding steps enable him to steel upon it unheard and unperceived , and with a gun in his hand he rarely allows it to escape , and in many instances , he will even kill it with his own weapons . ’ |
| 2 | Today they were busy and the dogs were chained , so it did n't matter so much about the naked window . |
| 3 | Are you gon na tell them about the naked . |
| 4 | Winter days like today she imagined mad , anxious ghosts pacing the grass , walking through the naked trees , wailing at the misted water . |
| 5 | The green sweep of the wooded hills on Morven and Mull gave us an impression of verdant lushness after the naked rock and brown moors of the Outer Isles . |
| 6 | With the comic appearance of this modern barbarian the resolutely physical takes over ; we move back to the level of the naked man with no interest in the ‘ polymath ’ . |
| 7 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 8 | She liked the way the perspiration slowly emerged through her skin looking like deposited dew and she liked to be aware of the naked bodies lying in so many different postures around her . |
| 9 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 10 | At public baptism the head of the naked infant was anointed , immediately after immersion had taken place , with the chrysom oil , a mixture of olive oil and balsam . |
| 11 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 12 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 13 | The dark tenement block loomed up on her left and through the broken windows she could see the reflection of the naked gas jets that burned on each landing . |
| 14 | It is this quality which has moved writers to describe her work as mythic : she speaks for us all through an interpretation of her personal experience that makes use of the universal image of the naked human body . |
| 15 | Structurally there is some resemblance to Daedalic clothed figures of the previous century ( Nikandre 's dedication , the Auxerre girl ) in that the composition is cut at the waist by a belt ; a more primitive concept than the unifying pattern of the naked male torso . |
| 16 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 17 | He had frozen against the touch of the naked blade , but even so there was a line of broken skin which showed red , then was hidden by a wreath of mist . |
| 18 | Picasso later explained , in 1939 , that the man seated in the centre of the composition was a sailor enjoying the company of the naked women . |
| 19 | Or as Clark remarks of Manet 's Olympia , as exemplar of the modernist revolution both in content and in form : ‘ Olympia is not an enigma , not a courtisane , the final factual existence ( of the naked woman ) on the bed is the key to that of the paint ’ . |
| 20 | Later , when Aurangzeb ordered the decapitation of the naked fakir Sarmad , an Armenian Jew who had converted to Islam , the sage allegedly picked up his head and walked up the steps of the Jama Masjid . |
| 21 | It was easy to see the place was cool , thought Miles , there was always a copy of The Naked Lunch on the table . |
| 22 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 23 | Instead she simply stared back at him , unaware of the naked vulnerability in her tawny almond-shaped eyes . |
| 24 | DNase I cleavage of the naked DNA is poor within the A n . |
| 25 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 26 | She wanted to cry his name aloud again , but his mouth was against hers , his hair-roughened chest against the naked globes of her breasts , and she loved him , wanted him , needed him and , as he moved her until her back was on her mattress , she had no objection to make when he removed her only covering from her altogether . |
| 27 | And their small size enables tiny arthropods , some almost too small to see with the naked eye , to live in crannies , within the soil , between sand grains , and the like . |
| 28 | The body louse may lay its eggs in clothing or bedding , while the head louse , like the crab louse , cements its eggs on to hairs forming ‘ nits ’ , which are the size of a pin-head and can just be made out with the naked eye . |
| 29 | Quite often , olivine and pyroxene begin to crystallize out early on , so they may be present in the final rock as quite large crystals , up to a centimetre across , many times larger than the crystals surrounding them , and easily visible with the naked eye . |
| 30 | He examined the pieces with the naked eye , then with his glass , while behind him Isobel held her breath . |