Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 2 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 3 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 4 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 5 | If Gerald Thomas went to his flat to pick him up , he would be looking out of the window waiting for his car to arrive . |
| 6 | These objects seemed to Lee , now as then , to be growing out of the environment , blossoming uglily , like strange new plants emerging from a darkened tree-trunk . |
| 7 | At Cefalù the Cathedral , built 1131–48 , is impressively sited on the side of a mountain overlooking the sea ; it appears to be growing out of the mountainside ( 292 ) . |
| 8 | The Australians looked to be heading out of the championship when New Zealand 's Peter Belliss and Gary Lawson took the opening set 7-1 and then recovered from 0-6 down to add the second 7-6 . |
| 9 | The X-ray-emitting gas is so hot that it must be rushing out of the bulge as a galactic ‘ wind ’ , unless it is somehow confined by magnetic fields . |
| 10 | Romania 's ethnic Germans once estimated at between 200,000 and 220,000 , were reported to be flooding out of the country , taking advantage of the policy of West Germany which granted citizenship to anyone who could prove German descent . |
| 11 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 12 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 13 | Well , volunteers for the diet seemed to be coming out of the woodwork ! |
| 14 | No hopefully a car will be coming out of the end . |
| 15 | That would be jumping out of the frying-pan into a raging inferno . |
| 16 | No , she must be working out of the Kingston office cos we do n't |