Example sentences of "[prep] naked [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is obviously a consensus that , generally speaking , it is useful not to work in an environment with pictures of naked women , ’ said a committee spokeswoman yesterday . |
| 2 | Pictures of naked women are testimony to the power that is maintained by men while the erotic ‘ gaze ’ is one-way . |
| 3 | But you are proposing to use pictures of naked women , or one naked woman — like the pin-ups that are plastered all over the factory ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’ |
| 5 | An exceptional sense of sculptural form is already present in ivory figurines of naked women ( on an oriental model but wholly Greek in character ) found in a late eighth-century Athenian grave . |
| 6 | When I stay in hotels around the world , do you know I get photos of naked women pushed under my door with phone numbers on them ? |
| 7 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 8 | There was a plant , which grew and blossomed along the picture rail , and climbed down a picture cord to embrace the frame of a small oil painting of naked nymphs ; there was the end of a brass bedstead , upon which other plants clambered and flowered . |
| 9 | X-rayted movies of naked catalysts |
| 10 | I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ghouls had all been sent away and under the fierce new glare of naked lights , caretakers were clearing up while someone pushed a trolley of glass-eyed computer-monitors that got into everybody 's way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy . |
| 15 | No steam rooms full of naked girls ? |
| 16 | The defendant 's house was raided and photographs of naked girls were found . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yes , already I can hear the sound of Naked Lunch parties taking place in my head . |
| 19 | Richard Alston quit New Barns special school , Toddington , Gloucs , after his flatmate , former school governor Peter Righton , was fined for having porn photos of naked boys . |
| 20 | These days , however , far from being likely to ignore everyone at a party full of naked birds , Doonican has become king of what has become known as the ‘ light entertainment ’ circuit in the north-east of England . |
| 21 | These days , however , far from being likely to ignore everyone at a party full of naked birds , Doonican has become king of what has become known as the ‘ light entertainment ’ circuit in the north-east of England . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | about the innocence of naked spode . |
| 24 | This gives a double meaning to Blanche 's hatred of naked light . |
| 25 | The Dons cranked up the ghetto-blaster and happily rubbed United 's noses in their demoralising defeat with an impromptu dressing room bash , capped by the bizarre sight of naked backsides wiggling in the sombre Old Trafford corridors . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |