Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 2 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 3 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 4 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 5 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 6 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 7 | The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm . |
| 8 | NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season . |
| 9 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |
| 10 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 11 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 12 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 13 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 14 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 15 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 16 | I just made it out of the front door and to the end of my path , when the picture windows imploded inwards and the house erupted behind me through its triangular roof like Krakatoa herself . |
| 17 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 18 | Mr Petrie deftly shovelled the smouldering contents of the cushion into the barrow and wheeled it out of the front door , round to the back of the house , and left it . |
| 19 | Palmerston returned to the Foreign Office in July 1846 in Russell 's administration and was able to enjoy the effects of the changes he had instigated until December 1851 , when pressure from the Court forced him out of the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 21 | Even as he carried her out of the lighted kitchen his lips continued to caress her and she was not in any way close to recovering as he placed her on her feet in her own room . |
| 22 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 23 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 24 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 25 | The fellow 's resistance collapsed like a house of cards ; bowing and mumbling apologies , he led us out of the main palace building , across a deserted cobbled yard to a small tower built in the far wall of the palace . |