Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ .
2 This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna .
3 Suddenly the leafy green tunnel gives way to a clearing gouged out of the hooded wood .
4 And that was why , when Paula 's face swam out of the murky clouds and peered incuriously at him , Miles Engado screamed .
5 Sacco peered out of the stricken doorway .
6 Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box .
7 He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court .
8 Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism .
9 HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp Stadium .
10 HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp stadium .
11 HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead at home .
12 IVAN LENDL , the No 4 seed , crashed out of the European Community Championships in Antwerp yesterday , beaten 6–4 , 6–2 in the second round by unseeded Australian Mark Woodforde .
13 The hounds crashed out of the far side of the covert and swung away from Artemis and her father uphill .
14 In the United States the long dominant Democratic New Deal electoral coalition , which Franklin Roosevelt created out of the white south and the industrial working-class , has been in retreat .
15 From Western Province , he moved out of the first-class game to Boland but last year returned to the South African top flight with Orange Free State .
16 Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before .
17 As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face .
18 Further , it will document the experience of families as they moved out of the old tenements , often slums , into their new houses in the new schemes .
19 Since you moved out of the old house we ca n't stay with you and Jane hates hotels .
20 Scritti Politti also moved out of the shadowy margins and proposed a schizoid project — the making of perfect pop that contains its own internal deconstruction .
21 He moved out of the bright firelight into the shadows by the wall as if hoping to escape further questioning .
22 Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water .
23 S is the seed of the apple A which sprouted out of the unwholsome manure that B became after she was dead and buried .
24 The pale trunks of giant ramon trees rose out of the layered undergrowth of fan palms and creepers .
25 Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city —
26 Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth .
27 In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network .
28 And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue .
29 Karen and Kee drove out of the small village , down the road , and soon came to the houses of the new town .
30 GOVERNOR Bill Clinton was beating Mr Jerry Brown in early polling in New York 's Democratic primary election yesterday , but Mr Paul Tsongas , who dropped out of the presidential race three weeks ago , was running a strong third .
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