Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building . |
| 2 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 3 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 4 | ‘ I suddenly got out of bed half naked . |
| 5 | Corbett walked across and was grateful when Selkirk diplomatically moved out of earshot . |
| 6 | If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit . |
| 7 | Even though the wind kept the tops cool , the sun was relentless , and I foolishly changed out of my breeches into shorts for the remainder of the route . |
| 8 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 9 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
| 10 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 11 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 12 | Luch hated that task ; Ranald loved it — he never seemed to get sick , though there was aye less came out of the bowl than went in . |
| 13 | It suddenly happened out of thin air . |
| 14 | Swindon 's board said ; There 's no rift and no apparent rhyme or reason why Chief Executive , Peter Day suddenly walked out of Swindon Town . |
| 15 | Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture . |
| 16 | Allan , too , had qualified but poor Todd Bennett pulled a hamstring in the home straight and literally leapt out of the Championships . |
| 17 | Before this , much of Building 3 and its associated courtyard apparently went out of use , judging from an extensive stony layer deposited across their remains . |
| 18 | Those at the north end of Normangate Field remained essentially agricultural in character throughout the second century , after which they apparently went out of use . |
| 19 | She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party . |
| 20 | The most difficult requisite to produce was ‘ Conscience ’ for the struggles for political liberty had always been in the name of ‘ Rights ’ , and in this conflict , ‘ the other side of the civic relation naturally fell out of sight ’ . |
| 21 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 23 | Then she swiftly went out of the house . |
| 24 | Indeed , in 1984 some eighteen smallish tour operators failed and in late 1984 an important firm , Budget Travel ( the tenth largest at the time ) also suddenly went out of business . |
| 25 | But its five miles long — HOORAY ! ’ when Henry suddenly looked out of the window , sat bolt upright and exclaimed , ‘ Hey , Jim , we 're on the bloody pavement ! ’ |
| 26 | On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily . |
| 27 | Sarah and her friends had left the party at their local rugby club in Keynsham , Avon , when a speeding Ford Fiesta suddenly appeared out of the fog on the A4 . |
| 28 | Even his mother , Grandma Williams — who was ending her days boasting to people in the pub about her famous grandson , telling distant relatives who suddenly appeared out of the woodwork about him and regaling the family with stories about her strange neighbours — became scared of him . |
| 29 | She gently floated out of the hatch , trailing the rope behind her . |
| 30 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |