Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 2 | There was a low-slung sofa with a faded loose cover ; a rocking-chair with canvas strips hanging out of the bottom ; and a broad oak table on metal castors . |
| 3 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 4 | The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds . |
| 5 | The surrounding countryside is windswept and rocky , moss-bedecked flints sticking out of the ground like primitive blades . |
| 6 | ‘ The beds are unmade and there are dirty knickers sticking out of the washing machine . |
| 7 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 8 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 9 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 10 | Agnes is losing patience and revenue , I 've practically got my legs sticking out of the Boomerang window , when there 's this heavy handslap on the roof of the car . |
| 11 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 12 | That was to the tune of 38–3 in an Arms Park qualifying match and sent the Dragons tumbling out of the World Cup . |
| 13 | Not only was the IDE host card hanging out of the slot , the securing screw having gone AWOL , but the ribbon cable was disconnected , too . |
| 14 | Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage . |
| 15 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 16 | According to the Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , which still has one of the few non-Romanian journalists operating out of the country , the committee consists of lawyers , artists , and workers , but there is still no sign of a leader or a programme . |
| 17 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 18 | She turned towards the shallow stone steps leading out of the square . |
| 19 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 20 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 21 | On top of it there was a copper funnel , and there were rods coming out of the end of the funnel attached to a wheel . |
| 22 | They flowed from every avenue of the kitchen , a waist-high tide of grubby , grey-cowled figures rushing in towards him , their coloured boots , sashes and hat-brims swirling out of the mist . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ said Antony staring out of the window into the front garden . |
| 24 | I particularly remember him at parties diving out of the window for fresh air . |
| 25 | My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak . |
| 26 | Stage 3 represents subsequent developments resulting from the project grant and includes inservice and staff-development activities , the publicising and promotion of good practice coming out of the project , and any other spin-off effects . |
| 27 | The equivalent wage for the same ratings sailing out of the north east coast were £pound10 for Britishers and £pound6 for Chinamen , out of the Bristol Channel and London £pound9 and £pound6.10s and out of Liverpool £pound8.10s and £pound6 . |
| 28 | It may be that a court of equity will regard the bank as affected by equities arising out of the manner in which the husband persuades his wife to agree to the proposed transaction . |
| 29 | Proposals are currently under consideration to transfer contractual disputes arising out of the employment relationship from the civil courts to the industrial tribunals , but no enabling legislation has yet been implemented to secure this . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |