Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 2 | Lilacs out of the dead land , mixing |
| 3 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 4 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 5 | ‘ Who knows , ’ she added , eyes out of the open window , unable to look at Rory for a moment , ‘ it could still come to that . ’ |
| 6 | Rachel Whiteread constructs concrete images out of the invisible space surrounding everyday objects . |
| 7 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 8 | What Scissormen do is take a series of chaotic noises , disturbed atmospherics and fragments of other people 's music , then hammer melodies and songs out of the cacophonous melée . |
| 9 | A pale yellow lustre was growing low down in the east , making feathery silhouettes out of the black stands of trees along the bends in the river . |
| 10 | He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them . |
| 11 | He noticed the pieces with which Wyvis Hall was furnished , taking books out of the public library on antiques and porcelain and measuring the remembered articles against illustrations , catching his breath sometimes at mounting values . |
| 12 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 13 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 14 | It is an exhilarating walk to the Point , where the cliffs tower to a height of 300 feet , but the great feature that tempts motorists from their cars is a spectacular detached column of rock that rises 200 feet out of the angry waves at its base . |
| 15 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |
| 16 | Quinn folded the wires and clothes-peg into the space left in the open box , pulled the wires out of the brown substance . |
| 17 | They were particularly reluctant to subsidize council house rents out of the general rate in order to allow farm workers access to local authority housing . |
| 18 | The guitar would be recognisable by chips out of the treble side of the pickup covers ; however , it has never resurfaced and , like Scotty Moore 's ES295 , there are probably hundreds of so-called ‘ originals ’ around the world . |
| 19 | As a result of these Land elections , the federal CDU-CSU-FDP coalition in the Bundesrat regained its majority ( which it had lost to the SPD after Land elections in May 1990 — see p. 37467 ) , with 35 seats out of the new total of 68 . |
| 20 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 21 | The two English entrants , Bradford G.S . and Mount St. Marys , could not overcome the handicap of lack of preparation , as the tournament was 12 weeks out of the English season . |
| 22 | Two days out of the fucking Jungle after nearly dying and you put the phone down on me . |
| 23 | 1PM Hundreds of looters stream like ants out of the giant Sears ( ‘ Where America shops ! ’ ) department store at Western and Santa Monica , carrying TVs , racks of clothing , fishing rods , anything and everything , on foot to their homes . |
| 24 | During World War I , he served in an anti-aircraft unit and then , in 1916 , was sent to France by the YMCA to organize rest-houses and libraries for troops out of the front line . |
| 25 | Rule 6(2) provides that in respect of a mortgagee 's litigation costs , the mortgagee is entitled to take his costs out of the mortgaged property ‘ and the court may order otherwise only on the ground that he has acted unreasonably . ’ |
| 26 | Nor , in our opinion , does it affect the contractual or equitable right of a mortgagee to retain his costs out of the mortgaged property . |
| 27 | This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty . |
| 28 | What of Juhel of Dol and his careful and simian plotting to keep his suffragans out of the grasping fingers of Tours ? |
| 29 | At the bottom of page six , top of page seven I think that issue there requires a resolution from you in that we have , the officers have suggested that we spend er six hundred thousand pounds out of the minor works budget on those four schemes but we should reserve the remainder of that minor works budget for approximately and er that report should be put to the March Committee . |
| 30 | ‘ I could steal some things out of the rich folks ’ washhouses , mind . |