Example sentences of "the naked [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard wants to make some huge impulsive gesture to express the naked love he feels . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 4 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 5 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 6 | There were Blake prints on the walls , the Inferno scenes , Nebuchadnezzar with his eagle 's talons , the naked Newton with his golden curls . |
| 7 | I could afford the naked women but not the naked scepticism , the carping and sniping and the public washing of dirty linen which represents freedom to an English editor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The naked skin of its trunk reveals every wrinkle and crease as it moves about and to many eyes this makes it the ugliest cat in existence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You need n't worry about her , ’ he repeated , gesturing at the naked girl . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Isambard 's deep eyes flashed to Harry 's face and lingered there , untroubled by the naked hate and defiance that stared back at him . |
| 14 | Unbelievably , the Sergeant saluted the naked trio . |
| 15 | For that brief moment she could see the room beyond him and there , jutting out from what seemed at first glance to be a pillow beneath the blanket , the naked foot of a youth . |
| 16 | DNase I cleavage of the naked DNA is poor within the A n . |
| 17 | One might have thought he had been beaten to the composition of the most perfectly unfilmable book by William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch , which depicts a peculiarly literary and private nightmare . |
| 18 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 19 | The Naked Lunch does not end so much as tail off entropically into verbal fragments . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He is in the instrument 's thrall , instructed to compile ‘ reports ’ that turn into a novel called The Naked Lunch . |
| 22 | Whereas , as we all know , all women are really giant centipedes from outer space — no sorry , that 's The Naked Lunch . |
| 23 | Also making a mark with the censors is The Naked Lunch . |
| 24 | It was easy to see the place was cool , thought Miles , there was always a copy of The Naked Lunch on the table . |
| 25 | From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love ’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . |
| 26 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Naked Chat Show is planned as a highlight of the three-night event next February . |
| 29 | The Naked Chat Show , to screen after midnight , will feature celebrities and members of the public who dare to strip for the cameras . |
| 30 | In pursuit of this , the channel released a veritable blizzard of love and sex , 18 hours and 25 minutes of viewing , of which the most bizarre 20 minutes was surely The Naked Chat Show . |