Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then , in a blink , the pictures of Mum and Mrs Dinwiddie and the sea of mud vanished , and I came out of that station floating six inches above the ground .
2 I came out of slippered retirement and enjoyed a late bonus by visiting the old familiar places once again — but this time with a master cameraman .
3 ‘ Because when you came out of that theatre party , despite singing our song so wonderfully , you looked at me as if you did n't know me . ’
4 Now they went into war , they came out of this war the were n't , there was no tip of the glory for them .
5 Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep .
6 She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel .
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