Example sentences of "had [vb pp] out of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 2 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 3 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 4 | She had enjoyed Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 5 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 6 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 7 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 8 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 9 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 10 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 11 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 12 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 13 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 14 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 15 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 16 | The agreement by the County Council to transfer St. Peter 's to the minister was not without irony — the Ministry of Health had grown out of the same succession of poor laws which had produced both the institution and , indeed , local government itself . |
| 17 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 18 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 19 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 20 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 21 | As she passed Veronica 's house , she noticed that one of the men had got out of the green Maestro and was making his way round the back of the building . |
| 22 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 23 | The fact that Fields had arrived out of the blue , managed to sell Branson the basic idea of an airline and walked away six months later on his way to a million pounds … that was evidence of a particular sort of skill which Branson could appreciate . |
| 24 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 25 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |
| 26 | Peace News reported on the revolt against the ‘ multiversity ’ at the symbol of liberal corporate America , the Berkeley campus within the University of California ; it reported on the growing movement that had sprung out of the deep south civil rights campaign . |
| 27 | What Americans came to call ‘ the movies ’ and what in Britain was referred to as ‘ the pictures ’ had emerged out of a complex and distinctive metropolitan and urban culture which was very much achieving its quiddity as the nineteenth century came to a close . |
| 28 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 29 | The chair had spun out of the central track along the ridge and was now skewed at the precipitous edge of what would be a steep and stony career . |
| 30 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |