Example sentences of "[prep] naked [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 2 | His swift intake of breath and the shock that flashed across his face mirrored her own as their eyes locked in a split-second of naked honesty . |
| 3 | She had put on a wide navy blue belt with the shorts , hoping to draw the eye away from the uncomfortable length of naked leg , but instead , because of her all too narrow waist , had managed to look even sexier than ever . |
| 4 | Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy . |
| 5 | It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context . |
| 6 | Yes , already I can hear the sound of Naked Lunch parties taking place in my head . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 8 | about the innocence of naked spode . |
| 9 | This gives a double meaning to Blanche 's hatred of naked light . |
| 10 | Inside the Reich , worrying stories leaked out about the mentally ill and incurably sick being gassed in asylums ; the regime 's anti-Christian thrust was unmistakable again in the reopened struggle with , especially , the Catholic Church ; and attacks on the conservative forces in army and State , and the defamation of civil servants and judges , reflected the strengthening of the forces of naked power and repression as ordered administration and the remnants of the constitutional State were undermined by the expanding network of the Security Police . |
| 11 | Take for example the level of wages and working practices of the print unions in Fleet Street which are so obviously the result of the use of naked power . |
| 12 | Here is nature at its most raw , manifest in savage peaks and towering precipices , in awesome acres of naked rock and bogs , in lonely lochs and silent glens . |
| 13 | From Sligachan , only the northern end of a compact mass of peaks and pinnacles , linked by a high ridge of naked rock , can be seen , but by a circuitous byroad , the main climbing centre of Glen Brittle may be reached . |
| 14 | The next inhabited place is Kilchoan , the principal village on the peninsula , and six miles beyond , across a featureless moor , the lighthouse on Ardnamurchan Point is reached in a surround of naked rock and low cliffs . |
| 15 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 16 | How Gooch put on a display of naked courage |
| 17 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 18 | It was my stubborn belief that it would be better the other way round , because the little ones surely risked injury under that press of naked weight . |
| 19 | And despite the universal competition of animals for limited resources , settled territoriality will , like ritualized fighting and dominance , have the consequence of reducing the amount of naked aggression that can be seen in nature . |
| 20 | Territoriality , dominance , and ritualized fighting all result in the fact , often noticed , that the amount of naked aggression to be seen in nature is less than the maximum possible . |
| 21 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 22 | But , equally , his determination to see the job through to the end is typical of Ulster true grit in the face of naked terror . |
| 23 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 24 | It is a tale of naked oppression , and there are many in the world who still recognize it as their own . |
| 25 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 26 | ‘ Damn you ! ’ she gasped back , glaring with naked animosity : ‘ Get out ! |
| 27 | and then in , erm things , and probably play , play with them , the other one was erm who slept with naked woman on the , either side of the test with foul of |
| 28 | Michael Campbell , director general of RGDATA , the small grocers ' association , said his members felt utterly powerless when faced with naked violence . |
| 29 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 30 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |