Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Next we searched the entire barn for anything sharp — nails sticking out of the walls , for example — that might cut or harm them .
5 Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside .
6 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 .
7 There were many other prosecutions arising out of the investigations .
8 Erm one to do with tenants moving out of the flats ,
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 There is a moment of slow motion in which I have time to register the force of the water rushing over my body , my toes slipping out of the footcups , the paddle flying out of my hands .
13 Luckily , they did not see us , but they heard our six friends riding out of the trees , and with a shout they galloped towards them .
14 There were mounted men spilling out of the defiles and patches of dead ground on both sides of the plain .
15 A number of prosecutions of constables arising out of the disorders at Wapping at January 1987 collapsed on account of delay .
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