Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 2 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was like a mountain of walls and houses and streets rising out of the Vale with the river curling round its feet , lapping at the high walls . |
| 5 | The narrow inner door had been invisible in the uniformity of the panelling , and its latch had made no sound as it was lifted ; but suddenly there was a man framed in the doorway , a lean , wiry , lightly-built creature , stepping out of the wall with a conjuror 's aplomb and a deer-hound 's lanky grace . |
| 6 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 7 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 8 | Arms on the table , she was staring out of the window with unseeing eyes then , abruptly , she turned to face him . |
| 9 | Not only has it hived-off its drug side into Zeneca but also , unlike most chemical companies , it is coming out of the recession with no cash worries as the rights issue for the Zeneca shares will pay off most of its debt . |
| 10 | Springsteen tested it for comfort , then hid under the low coffee table , partly because it 's the only table I have and partly because it 's the ideal place to ambush somebody coming out of the bedroom with no shoes on . |
| 11 | But Raskolnikov 's nightmare calls to mind one that did , namely The Possessed , while the specific link between ‘ as men possessed ’ ( besnovatimi ) and The Possessed ( Besi , literally The Devils ) is inescapably obvious — just as the word ‘ Socialism ’ which Dostoevsky has written against the beast in Revelation coming out of the earth with horns like a lamb and speech like a dragon shows the general way his thoughts are tending . |
| 12 | Lily , coming out of the study with the tea tray , backed in again quickly , out of sight but able to hear . |
| 13 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 14 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 15 | He made for the door , sweeping out of the office with Rebecca in tow , stopping only to add as an afterthought , ‘ Ignore Rourke 's bad temper . |
| 16 | Small boys marked their route like milestones , bursting out of the undergrowth with baskets of fruit to sell . |