Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | was tut-tutting that we should n't be using out of er Stansted airport , they should be jets |
| 2 | One buck gets you ten that he 'll be eating out of your hand by the second beer . ’ |
| 3 | With our guide at the ready , every Hooray Triumphus in the land will soon be eating out of your hand . |
| 4 | Little waves of lightning seemed to be flashing out of her eyes . |
| 5 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It crossed her mind that he might well be keeping out of her way after his failure to secure some kind of punishment for Matthew 's cruel and unacceptable behaviour earlier in the day . |
| 8 | ‘ But I wo n't be leaping out of my seat if Pompey win . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Keeping some form of consistent documented proof of bullying is essential , says Adams , because many firms fail to recognise it as a problem and suspect the victim may be acting out of malice . |
| 13 | This is a difficult story to understand because Jesus seems to be acting out of character . |
| 14 | They 're much more likely to be acting out of self interest . |
| 15 | His little blue bright eyes , hard and round , that seemed this morning to be protruding out of the shallow creamy lakes around them , were full of hate for her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He seems to be growing out of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The X-ray-emitting gas is so hot that it must be rushing out of the bulge as a galactic ‘ wind ’ , unless it is somehow confined by magnetic fields . |
| 21 | Where the consumed tentacle had rested a mist seemed to be congealing out of nothing as though the hydra was already replenishing itself . |
| 22 | The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared . |
| 23 | Bulls argue there are increasing signs that America 's manufacturers may be pulling out of last year 's recession , when the whole economy kept growing only because of the dominant service industries . |
| 24 | BRITAIN may be pulling out of Hong Kong but trusty Tykes are putting the chips down in the battle for the hearts — and stomachs — of the Chinese . |
| 25 | To make matters worse the British government repeatedly announced that it would be pulling out of Egypt once the country was on a " sound " footing . |
| 26 | Romania 's ethnic Germans once estimated at between 200,000 and 220,000 , were reported to be flooding out of the country , taking advantage of the policy of West Germany which granted citizenship to anyone who could prove German descent . |
| 27 | He pointed out a gruelling three-mile running course to Bowe , instructed him to learn it and then said he 'd be going out of town for a few days . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Bryan seemed to be going out of his way to play a father 's role with the children . |
| 29 | In the 70s , voluntary organisations seemed almost to be going out of existence . |
| 30 | Rank Hovis were now realising that the cup could be going out of their cabinet and straight into Rentokil 's , they decided to keep us playing and on came the warehouse lads , and Rentokil promptly achieved a 6-O victory . |