Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 It is not good practice simply to leave the cable poking out of the wall , and many wall light fittings will not have space in their backing plate to make the connections .
2 I left Bainbridge by the lane leading out of the village from the Post Office .
3 My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak .
4 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 .
5 Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage .
6 Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible .
7 Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible .
8 The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’
9 But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day .
10 It seemed a long way , though , from the summer perfume of myrtle and orange-blossom , the brilliance of white fluted marble , the wreathing steam , the orderly practices of the sugar-yards , the worksongs of the scything and the vintage , the glory of the sun setting , of the sun rising out of the sea .
11 When a sheep died or was slaughtered , they would sometimes pack the entrails into a hessian sack and lower it into the beck leading out of the reservoir just below the Hauxwell property .
12 Soon after my mother had died , I had noticed a gap in the familiar contours of the furniture in the room leading out of the sitting-room — it was where the shop had once been , entered then via the yard gate and a large open porch .
13 One July morning the sun shone on two figures climbing the hill leading out of the fine city of Wintoncester .
14 ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system .
15 Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country .
16 The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine .
17 If you use a shower attachment rather than a simple measuring jug , take care to ensure that the water coming out of the nozzle does not suddenly change temperature .
18 As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper .
19 The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls .
20 When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur .
21 I sensed the warmth screaming out of the atmosphere to be replaced with the absolute zero of his clinical persona but I could n't stop myself .
22 She could not spend the day looking out of the window .
23 Then I saw that the policeman coming out of the darkness was wearing the blue of a Gardai , rather than the green of an RUC man .
24 The Vietnam show is playing to an audience comprised of the generation that was there , and therefore much of the art/entertainment arising out of the Vietnam war seeks to explain or expiate , to purge and to apologise .
25 No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head .
26 Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store .
27 She looked at the smoke coming out of the Zimmermann chimney .
28 Then he saw the signalman leaning out of the signal box window , a pipe clenched between his teeth .
29 We sat on the bench looking out of the window that was the size of a very large letter-box .
30 Stuart 's Mum sounded vexed and Stuart glared out of the side window at the woman getting out of the Mini with a girl he recognised .
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