Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] of a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said .
2 But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation .
3 If ClarisWorks is in the process of being born and Complete Works shows signs of coming out of a difficult adolescence , then PFS:WindowWorks is the old timer of the three .
4 This action shows his psychopathic nature of killing out of a mere whim without reason .
5 Steven mentioned the constraints that the E M U may impose on the economy , but the biggest single issue is the scandalous position in which this government has placed British workers by opting out of a Social Chapter and thus denying the right and protection at work which are granted , taken for granted as minimum basic conditions in all other member states .
6 This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level , Lagan College , in 1981 .
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