Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 2 | Enhancement of visitor facilities and setting up of major displays . |
| 3 | After decades when little change had taken place , most — if not all — the newspaper groups have introduced plans to modernize their plants by introducing new technology , reducing manning levels and moving out of central London to the East End . |
| 4 | Sometimes young cuckoos are too vigorous in their attempts to remove their nest mates and fall out of the nest themselves . |
| 5 | He pulled up in front of the stone steps and got out of the car . |
| 6 | Australia soaked the pressure , punished Ireland 's handling blunders and scampered out of their 22 at will to score tries that numbed the huge crowd . |
| 7 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |