Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 4 | The NAO , the taxpayers ' representative , said that by 31 March last year records of loans amounting to £21.3 million were incorrectly transferred out of a computer system for a considerable period . |
| 5 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 6 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 7 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 8 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 9 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 10 | The rewards of happiness and contentment and security , I see as mostly drawn out of a routine of things . |
| 11 | The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row . |
| 12 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 13 | Similarly , a motor car is a system which takes the driver and passengers from point A to point B. It is also made up of a number of sub-systems — the braking system , the heating system , the gearing system and so on . |
| 14 | This service is also offered independently of a search when a target company has already been identified . |
| 15 | All-rounder Tom Moody and injury-plagued fast bowler Bruce Reid are both left out of a squad which arrives in England on April 25 . |
| 16 | A machine that is customarily made up of a CPU , disk drive , input devices , output devices and memory . |
| 17 | This type of patterning is often used instead of a hem for jacket edgings and cuffs . |
| 18 | The thatched houses often consisted only of a roof of pandanus or coconut leaves on four poles , with rolled-up slats of interwoven pandanus leaves which could be lowered in case of rain . |
| 19 | Based on the seven days of creation there are seven days to a week and the Hebrew calendar is then made up of a cycle of seven years ( each seventh year being the Sabbatical year ) and seven cycles of seven years ( with each fiftieth year being a year of Jubilee ) . |
| 20 | Defending the family as the centre of human life and the village as the basic social unit Eliot expresses his preference for London over other cities since it remains characteristically made up of a collection of villages whose borders touch , each maintaining its own local character . |
| 21 | As Tallis focused her gaze on the young magic-man she could see that the newest skull was a blank-faced mask , crudely chipped out of a circle of rain-softened bark . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most extraordinary creation was a libation vessel in the form of a shell , yet made out of a block of hard and brittle obsidian . |
| 23 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |