Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked grotesque , a little ridiculous , with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching . |
| 2 | The clues consisted of four pictures : Snoopy with cream on his face , Charlie Brown with red paint on his hands , Donald Duck with muddy feet , and Mickey Mouse with a necklace sticking out of his pocket . |
| 3 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 4 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 5 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 6 | She stood looking about her ; at his plank bed with the bedclothes neatly pulled over it ; at the old easy chair with the stuffing sticking out of its seat . |
| 7 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 8 | Nadia and Selma lay sleeping quietly , their black hair tumbling out of their braids . |
| 9 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 10 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 11 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 12 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 13 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 14 | Jose Carreras has had some practice singing out of doors — he sang in the grounds of Castle Howard last year and also in front of a 15,000-strong audience in Bath . |
| 15 | Angel was now sitting in the driving seat , a fag hanging out of his sulky mouth , revving up the engine . |
| 16 | They 'd get off the bus from West London there because they were such big Faces fans and Malcolm 's shop was right next door to the home of the dandy fashion shop Granny Takes A Trip — a shop which had a Cadillac sticking out of its window — where The Faces and The Stones bought their clothes |
| 17 | Indeed , the various government White Papers that preceded the reorganisation of individual social services gave implicit support to this feeling of vague egalitarianism stemming out of universalism . |
| 18 | Then , as now , it looked out over the broad creek and the gunmetal-coloured mud with the eaten-looking wreck of an old fishing boat sticking out of it . |
| 19 | Not only was the IDE host card hanging out of the slot , the securing screw having gone AWOL , but the ribbon cable was disconnected , too . |
| 20 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 21 | Yet obviously there have to be reasons why people with talent oozing out of them do n't fulfil it . |
| 22 | Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage . |
| 23 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 24 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 25 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 26 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 27 | There was blood pouring out of his head . |
| 28 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 29 | drain like light going out of a landscape . |
| 30 | THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays . |