Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 2 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 3 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 4 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 6 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 're going out of the frying-pan into the fire ? ’ |
| 8 | Always tell her when you 're going out of the room and , when she can understand , that you 'll be back soon . |
| 9 | You 're getting out of the street anyway are n't you ? |
| 10 | And although they 're facing out of the wind now , you ought to know that this is n't the usual wind we get here . |
| 11 | ‘ I take it we 're opting out of the crime business ? ’ |
| 12 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 13 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 14 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 15 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 16 | Women are crawling out of the woodwork but they are duplicitous and wizened , swamp people and ratbags , and they can blacken and turn leathery before I will condescend to them . |
| 17 | That in itself is a sign that we are coming out of the recession . |
| 18 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 19 | All the students , even those who have been staring out of the window , react to this . |
| 20 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 21 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 22 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 23 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 24 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |
| 25 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 26 | If Gerald Thomas went to his flat to pick him up , he would be looking out of the window waiting for his car to arrive . |
| 27 | I 'm looking out of the window , putting off the moment when there will be nothing left to find out and all this has to end . |
| 28 | These objects seemed to Lee , now as then , to be growing out of the environment , blossoming uglily , like strange new plants emerging from a darkened tree-trunk . |
| 29 | At Cefalù the Cathedral , built 1131–48 , is impressively sited on the side of a mountain overlooking the sea ; it appears to be growing out of the mountainside ( 292 ) . |
| 30 | The Australians looked to be heading out of the championship when New Zealand 's Peter Belliss and Gary Lawson took the opening set 7-1 and then recovered from 0-6 down to add the second 7-6 . |