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

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1 No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window .
2 There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way .
3 ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him .
4 While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away .
5 It was a fine warm autumn evening and although the light was already dying out of the sky the trees still looked magnificent , shades of gold and red blending with some still-green foliage .
6 So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more
7 She was already scrambling out of the jeep .
8 They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance .
9 The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride .
10 She was just going out of the door .
11 A flood of Literary Lionisers was already pouring out of the railway station , fighting in well-bred fashion over victorias and landaus .
12 Blindly , she followed him , and in the entrance she bumped into Stan , a burly policeman in black waterproofs who was just heading out of the department .
13 But moments later , he emerged with his freight , to find that Godolphin was already marching out of the copse that screened the Retreat from both the house ( empty , of course ; in ruins ) and any casual spy who peered over the wall .
14 I was just moving out of the way .
15 He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise .
16 As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance .
17 Michael Jackson ( right ) , circa 1980 : pre-surgery , pre-Bubbles , but already opting out of the lifestyle everyday mortals lead
18 In the meanwhile , restorer Saveli Yamshchikov thinks that some of this war booty is already seeping out of the country .
19 ‘ It was full of slops , ’ answered Nellie , still gazing out of the window .
20 Nor , from the beginning of the indiscriminate sinking of British merchant ships by U-boats , could there be the slightest doubt among seamen who the enemy was ; but adjustment was difficult , and bread and butter questions such as pay and conditions of work were aggravated and complicated by wartime inflation , by manpower shortages and by excessive profits made by shipowners who grew even richer and more demanding out of the sweat and blood of their merchant crews .
21 The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration .
22 Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ?
23 Jackson spoke softly , still looking out of the window , his head turned from the other man .
24 He looked back to Rohmer , still looking out of the window .
25 Maisie was still looking out of the window .
26 ‘ We 're moving , ’ said Masklin , still peering out of the hole and almost glad of anything that would stop the argument .
27 From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard .
28 He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone .
29 And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen .
30 There were sharp cuts in government expenditure which , although they eased the deficit in the short term , also led to further slowing down of the economy as a whole .
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