Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 2 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |
| 3 | The reason the trade union movement should support the Maastricht Treaty is it 's the only Treaty that is on offer , there 's nothing else on offer but it 's a reasonable Treaty , it has differences in the U K and the reasons it has differences in the U K is the one Mr Major came back last December tell us what a wonderful opportunity it was for Britain , what a wonderful success it was for Britain that he 'd opted out of the Social Chapter . |
| 4 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 5 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 6 | She had enjoyed Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 7 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 8 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 9 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 10 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 11 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 12 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 13 | The agreement by the County Council to transfer St. Peter 's to the minister was not without irony — the Ministry of Health had grown out of the same succession of poor laws which had produced both the institution and , indeed , local government itself . |
| 14 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 15 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 16 | As she passed Veronica 's house , she noticed that one of the men had got out of the green Maestro and was making his way round the back of the building . |
| 17 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 18 | The fact that Fields had arrived out of the blue , managed to sell Branson the basic idea of an airline and walked away six months later on his way to a million pounds … that was evidence of a particular sort of skill which Branson could appreciate . |
| 19 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 20 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |
| 21 | Peace News reported on the revolt against the ‘ multiversity ’ at the symbol of liberal corporate America , the Berkeley campus within the University of California ; it reported on the growing movement that had sprung out of the deep south civil rights campaign . |
| 22 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 23 | The chair had spun out of the central track along the ridge and was now skewed at the precipitous edge of what would be a steep and stony career . |
| 24 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |
| 25 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 26 | At best , he would now only send fresh generals against the Christian force ; but even after El Cid 's death , much of the heart had gone out of the Moorish invaders . |
| 27 | Unwillingly she marshalled them into order , beginning with the moment when she and Stephen had stepped out of the French windows , apprehensive because Timothy Gedge was in the garden . |
| 28 | We visited the spot where in June 1914 , Gavrilo Princip had stepped out of the shadowy twisting maze that forms Sarajevo 's Turkish old town , onto a broad Austrian boulevard , and shot dead the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Throne , Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the first shot of the First World War . |
| 29 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 30 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |