Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the jar the cream was whipped up , light as a soufflé , and smelled delicately of mimosa . |
| 2 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 3 | A day spent finding China 's Number One sea shell carving factory , brought forth the awesome sight of the Great Wall made entirely of shells . |
| 4 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 5 | The Germanic cavalry often had morning stars made entirely of iron . |
| 6 | These should not be confused with pails which are cylindrical , handled containers made entirely of metal , mostly imported into England ( Richards 1986 ) . |
| 7 | It 's must cleverer to say ‘ Last week we visited a model village in Scandinavia made entirely of coloured interlocking building blocks , ’ ie , Legoland . |
| 8 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 9 | Keys made entirely of iron were also in everyday use . |
| 10 | Each one of us was given a chess board complete with chess men made entirely of sweetmeats . |
| 11 | But there are older , more cherished items , too , like a black jacket made entirely of feathers , and a fake fur coat bought on holiday in Tenerife . |
| 12 | The heart of the park will feature models made entirely of Lego bricks depicting scenes and world famous architectural sites . |
| 13 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 14 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 15 | The hospital cost alone of hip fractures in England and Wales was £128 million in 1985 . |
| 16 | Rare two point eight manual option , service history full service history , over two thousand pound bills , gleaming metallic gold , luxury velvet interior , power steering , tilt slide centre , tinted electric windows remote mirrors , four headrests , alloys etc. , tax , M O T , beautiful car , maintained regardless of cost eight hundred and ninety five quid . |
| 17 | South-west of Jan Mayen is Iceland , built entirely of volcanic rocks , and famous for both its volcanoes and its geysers . |
| 18 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 19 | For GMSA we used a set of double stranded oligonucleotides ( see Fig. 4A ) containing the canonical octamer motif found in e.g. the adenovirus 4 origin of replication , the human histone H2B promoter , and the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer ( oligonucleotides Ad4 and D ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif from the Ad2 origin of replication ( oligonucleotide Ad2 ) , the TAATGARAT motif from the HSV immediate early gene ICP4 ( oligonucleotides ICP4 and B ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGATAT motif found upstream of the HSV ICP0 gene ( oligonucleotide C ) and a motif differing by a change from T to G converting the HSV ICP0 site to a perfect TAATGARAT motif ( oligonucleotide A ) . |
| 20 | Ray Davies of the Kinks had tried this sort of songwriting before but his laboured and intensely mannered approach smacked only of bourgeois facetiousness . |
| 21 | Lord James said the Government accepted the increased sentences , adding : ‘ There is a rising crime rate and rising public concern that it is necessary to obliterate the knife culture and the vicious circle involved therein of knife-wielding thugs . ’ |
| 22 | It tasted unequivocally of bleach . |
| 23 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 24 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 25 | It is a three-dimensional , fibrous structure , built up of protein blocks which the tanning process makes resistant to putrefaction and softens to a degree that suits the end use . |
| 26 | El Shadday : Shadday probably means " mountain " , used symbolically of changelessness and enduring strength , contrasted to the helplessness of man . |
| 27 | These sticks would be twisted round until the bag was tightly pressed and the essential oil oozed out of the petals . |
| 28 | Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on , the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere . |
| 29 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 30 | Blood oozed out of the meat and stained the carbon steel of the knife blade . |