Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Sacco peered out of the stricken doorway . |
| 5 | Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box . |
| 6 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 7 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 at home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The hounds crashed out of the far side of the covert and swung away from Artemis and her father uphill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 16 | Since you moved out of the old house we ca n't stay with you and Jane hates hotels . |
| 17 | He moved out of the bright firelight into the shadows by the wall as if hoping to escape further questioning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | S is the seed of the apple A which sprouted out of the unwholsome manure that B became after she was dead and buried . |
| 20 | The pale trunks of giant ramon trees rose out of the layered undergrowth of fan palms and creepers . |
| 21 | 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 — |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue . |
| 25 | Karen and Kee drove out of the small village , down the road , and soon came to the houses of the new town . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The 23-year-old Teessider , who dropped out of the British decathlon trial at Sheffield last weekend after eight events , has chosen not to chase the Barcelona qualifying score , 7,850 points , in Germany before the selection deadline , June 28 . |
| 28 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 29 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 30 | He came out of the non-existent sun at 45 degrees and concentrated on keeping the nose pointing just below the tablecloth , remembering that the Lewis gun would fire high to clear the propeller . |