Example sentences of "[vb past] drop [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 2 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 3 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 4 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 5 | There was another clink , and gold coins began to drop out of the hem of the wizard 's robe . |
| 6 | ‘ When cocaine was made cheaper in the form of crack , that 's when things started dying , that 's when more crimes started happening , that 's when more people started dropping out of school to make that dollar . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 8 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 9 | The talk at the Dôme and Rotonde struck him as far more amusing than his lessons at the Lycée and before long he had dropped out of school . |
| 10 | He had dropped out of his studies for an English degree but stayed in Leeds because he enjoyed the social scene . |
| 11 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 12 | Like Sutton , Packford had dropped out of papers as a career . |
| 13 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 14 | Both residential preferences and government policy had dropped out of the picture . |
| 15 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 16 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 17 | He kissed you and it felt as if time had stood still and when he stopped you felt as if the bottom had dropped out of your world . |
| 18 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 19 | Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister . |
| 20 | An absurdly large raft of congressmen and senators was set to question the witnesses , sitting on a specially constructed double dais draped with burgundy cloth ; none wished to drop out of the committees and forfeit a screen appearance . |
| 21 | Harper had to drop out of the race with badly blistered feet after completing 80.53 miles . |