Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 2 | Suddenly out of the murky haze , I saw one charging at me . |
| 3 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 4 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 5 | Next , unscrew the old socket faceplate , ease the cables inside out of the mounting box , and disconnect the cable cores from the terminals . |
| 6 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 7 | Where the street broadened into a square , the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement . |
| 8 | Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way . |
| 9 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 10 | In some localities blastoids like this one break easily out of the enclosing matrix , or are weathered out in considerable numbers . |
| 11 | We shall fail to get the best out of the European Community , because our leaders will continue to be afraid to tell us that shared success in the Community means sharing sovereignty too . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 13 | I looked guiltily out of the open door . |
| 14 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 15 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 16 | The major-domo came quickly out of the inner chamber . |
| 17 | He walked quickly out of the bare office followed by a speechless Charles . |
| 18 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 19 | Attempts to move Currys gradually out of the high street to larger edge-of-town and out-of-town stores and to tone down Dixons ' garish image have yet to bear fruit . |
| 20 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 21 | In part two of our go-faster series , we consider getting even more out of the hard disk — by cacheing . |
| 22 | The ones we 've picked are a bit quieter and slightly more out of the main hubbub of our favourite resorts , to offer just a little more privacy and peace and quiet for those that want it . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 24 | Contrast that with the Churchills , who repaired to Claridge 's in 1945 , and the Douglas-Homes , who slipped sheepishly out of the back door bound for Chequers . |
| 25 | Bernard reversed straight out of the new garage into the road and hit a passing van . |
| 26 | Willie walked shakily out of the inner door to the porch . |
| 27 | He gazed dully out of the little window at a dark , neatly-clipped laurel hedge and the gravel path where the black cars were parked . |
| 28 | Ted jumped at the chance to work with Eva and Dad , partly out of nosiness — to see what freedom had made of Dad , and could perhaps make of Ted — and partly out of the returning appetite for labour . |
| 29 | Shah is also out of the United running . |
| 30 | Instantly out of the front door charged a man a foot smaller than Luke , but with a barrel-chest as big . |