Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 4 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
| 5 | It did n't matter which lead mode I selected , when I 'd pulled enough gain out of the system to create the required feel , the volume had all but gone , rendering the sound pretty unusable since it was way below that of my other patches . |
| 6 | If the family is sitting round peacefully sipping coffee , someone may suddenly rush out of the room . |
| 7 | Age-related classifications became more common ; older people were inexorably shaken out of the labour market and portrayed as an unproductive ‘ burden ’ on the rest of society ; and most important of all , the concept of mandatory retirement was institutionalized in the 1946 National Insurance Act . |
| 8 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 9 | If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit . |
| 10 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 11 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 12 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
| 13 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 14 | Luch hated that task ; Ranald loved it — he never seemed to get sick , though there was aye less came out of the bowl than went in . |
| 15 | ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 16 | He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 17 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 18 | and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way |
| 19 | You only get out of a tutorial what you are prepared to put into it — plus a little bit more ! |
| 20 | ‘ We 're offering a serious training course for real enthusiasts who know you only get out of a course what you put into it . |
| 21 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 22 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 23 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 24 | The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries . |
| 25 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 26 | Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture . |
| 27 | The male does not let them drop far — he catches them as they literally shoot out of the female . |
| 28 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 29 | Then she swiftly went out of the house . |
| 30 | But its five miles long — HOORAY ! ’ when Henry suddenly looked out of the window , sat bolt upright and exclaimed , ‘ Hey , Jim , we 're on the bloody pavement ! ’ |