Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pamela sipped her Tequila Sunrise , glorying in its garish colour , more sunset than sunrise , with its mountain of fruit and umbrella sticking out of the top . |
| 32 | Something huge and black loomed out of the mist of foam . |
| 33 | Something thin and black snaked out of the pit and wrapped itself around his ankle . |
| 34 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 35 | Bobbie and Phyllis stepped out of the darkness . |
| 36 | The car began to pick up speed , and Jessamy glanced out of the window . |
| 37 | Carol and Gillian peered out of the windows . |
| 38 | As they drew near , Foley and Carrington stepped out of the shadow of the control tower . |
| 39 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 40 | ‘ Scrimping and saving goes out of the window if there 's a special occasion - and women here are especially label conscious . |
| 41 | Marie followed the bus route to where she had seen Simon with his mother and father coming out of the private estate in their car . |
| 42 | Gannets and fulmars appeared out of the mist , flew alongside for a few minutes and disappeared again . |
| 43 | Who knows how much of the physical damage done to property and people arises out of the resentment and frustration smouldering on from school-days ? ( see Hargreaves , 1967 , and Lacey , 1970 , for accounts of the ‘ D-stream subculture ’ in secondary schools ) . |
| 44 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 45 | This August Rivermead staff and patients moved out of the old Victorian wards into new facilities . |
| 46 | 1985 : 1206 ) : ( 191 ) As the novels and tales lead out of the nineteenth century and into our own , we are made to feel more of the limited , contingent validity of moral claims and of collaborative endeavour . |
| 47 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 48 | Ray Illingworth refers to ‘ Hall and Griffith coming out of the trees ’ in an ambiguous reference to the inadequate sightscreens at Headingley in the '60s , although the ultimate faux pas was Tony Lewis ’ ill-timed use of the fourletter word when , unbeknown to him , he was still on air . |
| 49 | ‘ I wo n't let my wife and daughter look out of the window , ’ wrote an irate resident — because the ‘ travellers ’ were peeing against the trees ( 1985 — or 1885 ? ) . |
| 50 | The whole earth went schunk and all the dust and bits fell out of the ceiling . |
| 51 | Rows ( b ) and ( c ) show the simplest form of shift , where zeros are shifted into the vacated end of the pattern , and bits shifted out of the pattern are lost . |
| 52 | Police and doctors came out of the building to help the passengers . |
| 53 | He waited while Andrew and Peter came out of the wood , the former a little defensive . |
| 54 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 55 | It was a complete success and Charles walked out of the hospital unaided . |
| 56 | When one lands on such a flower , it seizes the clumped anthers with its six legs and then vibrates its muscles so vigorously that its whole body shakes with a loud buzzing noise and pollen pours out of the anthers like salt from a vigorously-wielded salt cellar . |
| 57 | Stuart 's Mum sounded vexed and Stuart glared out of the side window at the woman getting out of the Mini with a girl he recognised . |
| 58 | Just after five the next day , Edouard and Jean-Paul came out of the offices of the Governor-General . |
| 59 | All the goodness and virtue went out of the paper by his action . |
| 60 | Sigarup picked up the basket , staggering slightly to readjust the weight , and Chola came out of the doorway with a bowl of rice-grains stained with turmeric . |