Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a scuffle broke out , Saville moved to get away out of the way and fell awkwardly . ’ |
| 2 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |
| 3 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 4 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 5 | Well the earnings of course went into the business we 'd er There was Dad , he 'd retired then out of the pits , early . |
| 6 | Over the piece , however , United took more out of the game . |
| 7 | ‘ That said , I felt we deserved to take more out of the game and I will need to check the papers before I believe the result . ’ |
| 8 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 9 | She turned to stare fixedly out of the window , furiously blinking away the moisture which was threatening to fill her eyes , and trying to ignore a large lump which seemed to have become stuck in her throat . |
| 10 | Constance had been sound asleep for an hour before the double-engined train began to jerk laboriously out of the station , leaving many travellers on the platform to wait who knew how long for the next express . |
| 11 | Eachuinn Odhar strode splashing up out of the water to meet Lady Marion . |
| 12 | Despite the pain , he managed to push up out of the water and roll with practised efficiency over the side , and in . |
| 13 | On the coach Geoffrey had stared morosely out of the window ; now he stormed along the wing with ferocious determination . |
| 14 | ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said . |
| 15 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 16 | There was a stirring , a sense that at any minute the branches over his head might dip over him and brush his face , or that the roots that had thrust up out of the earth might wriggle and become alive and twine themselves about his feet . |
| 17 | Serbia had done well out of the Congress , but disliked the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( resistance to which was suppressed by force ) . |
| 18 | With the dreams of 1945 's Labour victory long gone , and the pretensions of the Conservatives painfully exposed it was the hour for the group of young meritocrats who had done well out of the peace , the Angry Young Men . |
| 19 | The flak even extended to the Prime Minister 's press office , which created a storm in parts of the media for suggesting that Scotland had done well out of the Budget . |
| 20 | It was normally the practice for writers like Macpherson to stress that the movies had grown directly out of the ‘ dime ’ or ‘ yellow-back ’ novel . |
| 21 | It was untidy , but then he had got straight out of the bed to answer the scratching . |
| 22 | Gedanken continued to look intently out of the window in the direction of the black hole . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's shot Caspar , ’ he said getting up out of the bracken . |
| 24 | The ship which had blasted upward out of the ziggurat palace only to explode , had propelled a life-capsule onwards , a stasis casket disguised as wreckage … |
| 25 | He had clumped down out of the stand and , against the flow of spectators , was making his way towards that hidden dell . |
| 26 | This meant Sorley had to lean further out of the van to grab it and as the door opened wider I got a good look inside . |
| 27 | Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes . |
| 28 | Hattie opened her writing-case , took out a sheet of paper and her pen , then sat gazing wistfully out of the window over Parker 's piece while she wondered whether or not to co-operate with Edwin 's stratagem that this must appear a chance visit . |
| 29 | He lit a cigarette and sat staring gloomily out of the window . |
| 30 | All voters tended to get more out of the system because of the levels of government grant . |