Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Who knows , ’ she added , eyes out of the open window , unable to look at Rory for a moment , ‘ it could still come to that . ’ |
| 5 | Rachel Whiteread constructs concrete images out of the invisible space surrounding everyday objects . |
| 6 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Quinn folded the wires and clothes-peg into the space left in the open box , pulled the wires out of the brown substance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Two days out of the fucking Jungle after nearly dying and you put the phone down on me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Nor , in our opinion , does it affect the contractual or equitable right of a mortgagee to retain his costs out of the mortgaged property . |
| 22 | This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty . |
| 23 | Local NGOs thus divert resources and personnel out of the public health services . |
| 24 | I took a deep breath , pulled the cabby cap down over my eyes and knocked seven bells out of the Cornish pixie . |
| 25 | This leaves 150 minutes out of the usual examination period of three hours . |
| 26 | ‘ That condition is that we cut ten minutes out of the running time . ’ |
| 27 | Taylor , 47 , of Potlands , Leeming Bar , failed to attend court and was convicted in his absence of two charges of moving pigs out of the declared area . |
| 28 | Taylor , 47 , of Potlands , Leeming Bar , failed to attend court and was convicted in his absence of two charges of moving pigs out of the declared area . |
| 29 | The Czechs put Rangers out of the European Cup in the first round on goal difference . |
| 30 | Possibly , too , the building trade was invaded by a new class of speculator who made conditions even worse than they need have been by extracting high profits out of the unprecedented demand for cheap houses . |