Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a world recession and a double-figure percentage decline in visitors to the American Disney parks , the company 's spending , maintenance of standards and rolling out of new projects that ‘ give folks good reasons to come back ’ , is prodigious . |
| 2 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 3 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 4 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 5 | Soldiers herded 50,000 Hindus onto buses and trains out of Ayodhya , where the violence was sparked by the destruction of a Moslem mosque . |
| 6 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 7 | Matthew burst into tears and ran out of the restaurant . |
| 8 | If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room . |
| 9 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 10 | Don Giovanni , though technically an opera buffa , is far removed from the light-hearted comedy of Figaro , in which characters change clothes , hide in cupboards and jump out of windows . |
| 11 | Virginia creeper needs to be clipped back from windows and hauled out of gutters . |
| 12 | WC apps : 2 Cameroun 's big moment came in Spain in 1982 when they held Peru , Poland and Italy to draws and went out of the tournament proud of their unbeaten record . |
| 13 | The once ‘ Wonderful Wallabies ’ are weary of touring , depleted by injuries and running out of gas . |