Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came out of a restaurant and had a race with Juan O'Brien and two of his cousins . |
| 2 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 3 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 4 | On one occasion , they clambered out of a taxi in Oxford Street . |
| 5 | Basically , they grew out of a thought process which was perhaps a little too logical , but logical all the same , relating to works made with your hands : you can cut off the artist 's hands and still end up with something which is a product of the artist 's choice since , on the whole , when an artist paints using a palette he is choosing the colours . |