Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 2 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 3 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 4 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
| 5 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 6 | 1838 " A Motion was made , seconded , and carried , that the Receiving houses and Post Runners hitherto paid out of the General Meeting Assessment should in future be discontinued . " |
| 7 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 8 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 9 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 10 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 11 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 12 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 13 | GRAEME SOUNESS had no complaints after watching Liverpool easily dumped out of the European Cup Winners Cup by Russian champions Spartak Moscow . |
| 14 | At Leamington , in May 1920 , the coalitionists were finally driven out of the Liberal party . |
| 15 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 16 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 17 | These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns . |
| 18 | Grindingly backward , it 's hardly moved out of the 19th century . |
| 19 | Expensive-looking loafers , preferably made out of an endangered species , remain essential for any aspiring manager . |
| 20 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 21 | Elsewhere the sources are precariously reconstructed out of the edited work itself . |
| 22 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 23 | The Socialist League , which , it will be remembered , had deliberately kept out of the United Front , accepted the need for Communist affiliation at its Annual Conference on l June 1936 . |
| 24 | Their rank and file supporters were also rooted out of the Labour Party in a flurry of activity throughout 1939 . |
| 25 | The two are not closely associated , because the white star is the closer to us by some 15 light-years , though presumably both condensed out of the same nebula which produced all the rest of the Hyades . |
| 26 | The idea is that large , complex systems are often made up of a single , simple shape repeated over and again . |
| 27 | In a meritocracy , talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata . |
| 28 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 29 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 30 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |