Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 2 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 3 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 4 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 5 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 6 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 7 | Springsteen tested it for comfort , then hid under the low coffee table , partly because it 's the only table I have and partly because it 's the ideal place to ambush somebody coming out of the bedroom with no shoes on . |
| 8 | He hurt himself jumping out of the lorry ! |
| 9 | Major , however , may find himself jumping out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 10 | Yes , but there 's somebody talking out of the film |
| 11 | Nicandra could n't watch them going out of the room together . |
| 12 | Notice something coming out of the undergrowth towards you . |
| 13 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 14 | Her fat finger with its yellow nail , the sister to the one poking out of the crepe bandage under the table , followed the faces of the four young Dersinghams . |
| 15 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 16 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 17 | In her mind 's eye , she could see him walking out of the velvet sea , the sunlight golden on his skin . |
| 18 | Once , upon her getting out of the car , they manoeuvred the vehicle so as to trap the field-worker to prevent her accompanying them . |
| 19 | . With this little foreman threatening fists and everybody running out of the way of the brickwork . |
| 20 | Have n't seen him coming out of the car . |
| 21 | She saw him jumping out of the door and the girl shooting him . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to call it living out of the shop . |
| 23 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 24 | I take hold of the branch and pull it ripping out of the grass and ferns . |
| 25 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's a canny little thing , as bright as a button , ’ was his summing up of the maid . |
| 27 | Now it 's glossy cream and pale blue and beautiful , but I find myself looking out of the window at the broken slats of the fence between our house and the next , and understanding very well why canals and tulips and windmills and clear blue Dutch skies had been important to the woman who had stood in that kitchen before me . |
| 28 | I think of myself rushing out of the house in North Oxford , or the quiet residential streets beyond the University Library in Cambridge , snatching my ancient portable typewriter off my desk as I go , with the voices of boorish boys shouting ‘ Mum ! |
| 29 | Cameron and Menzies found themselves moving out of the door in a file of soldiers whose feet were already walking in step . |
| 30 | Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch . |