Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) .
2 The tickover burbles and barks , but blip the throttle and the whole car twists with the torque reaction and the birds fly out of the trees .
3 We passed little shops hollowed out of the walls , selling henna , mint , aromatic seeds .
4 You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes .
5 The two black cars pulled out of the gates , round the corner , and were gone .
6 The time of Sigmar sees the Orcs and Goblins driven out of the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains .
7 They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels .
8 The clearest example of considerations which affect authoritative decisions but which do not apply to individuals acting on their own are considerations arising out of the needs and limitations of bureaucracies .
9 Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun .
10 Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons .
11 Next we searched the entire barn for anything sharp — nails sticking out of the walls , for example — that might cut or harm them .
12 Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside .
13 The contractual right of the defendants to retain out of the moneys in hand a sum in respect of costs disallowed on the standard basis taxation is in issue .
14 Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war .
15 He had tried to sleep , but the horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious and frightened him .
16 As α increases , a critical value α c is reached each time the i th layer of target atoms moves out of the cones , allowing for head-on collisions and , hence , back scattering as shown in Fig. 1 .
17 There were many other prosecutions arising out of the investigations .
18 Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both .
19 These are prisoners locked out of the prisons where they should be held .
20 ( Impossibly , the TRAGEDIANS climb out of the barrels .
21 Erm one to do with tenants moving out of the flats ,
22 One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops .
23 THE catalogue of horror stories coming out of the banks ' treatment of their customers seems to have no effect on the high-handed , arrogant way they behave .
24 On 13 October 1988 an order was made by Master Munrow directing the trial as a preliminary issue of certain questions arising out of the plaintiffs ' notice of objection .
25 He was unlikely to have her arrested again , and an unwanted pass might seem like fair payment for a few hours spent out of the confines of her depressing little room .
26 Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair .
27 The Germans opted out of the hostilities , entirely , the French sent an ambiguous little contingent , and only the British were fully committed alongside their American allies .
28 The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order .
29 Glasgow grew ever outwards in the thirties , swallowing up the countryside in huge bites as poured-concrete bungalows sprouted out of the fields of Newlands , Merrylee , Cathcart , and all points south .
30 Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls .
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