Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy had dropped to his knees and was hugging his head , when the noise suddenly snapped out of existence . |
| 2 | ‘ The last album just ran out of fun along the way . |
| 3 | With the growing crystallization of powers within the state from the 1860s , the reform of the civil service and the abandonment of political appointments , Simon 's cunning politicking now seemed out of place . |
| 4 | More than three thousand worked in woodland throughout the country to ensure British industry never ran out of timber . |
| 5 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the process soon got out of hand , for reasons having less to do with student need or the demands of a rapidly advancing subject than with professional status , it seemed that every American academic ( the glossy-text phenomenon is almost exclusively American ) would have to have his ( seldom , if ever , her ) own textbook . |
| 7 | This rather uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy as Miller certainly did not give all his attention to the gentry , although , as Kalm said , the aristocracy did seek his advice . |
| 8 | The whole process quickly got out of control . |
| 9 | He felt drowsy , for one rare moment almost lapsed out of consciousness , then Meg 's cry brought him back to himself . |
| 10 | Jacobitism often grew out of disillusionment with developments which had happened since the Revolution , rather than out of opposition to the Revolution itself . |
| 11 | Before this , much of Building 3 and its associated courtyard apparently went out of use , judging from an extensive stony layer deposited across their remains . |
| 12 | Jessamy suddenly ran out of patience . |
| 13 | The most difficult requisite to produce was ‘ Conscience ’ for the struggles for political liberty had always been in the name of ‘ Rights ’ , and in this conflict , ‘ the other side of the civic relation naturally fell out of sight ’ . |
| 14 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |