Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 2 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 3 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 4 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 5 | Harrison Ngau lost his battle : he scored 2,019 votes against the Barisan candidate 's 3,252 ; only about 5,500 people voted out of a possible 10,000 in Teland Usan . |
| 6 | The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 8 | The gifts of the Spirit come out of a living relationship with the Father . |
| 9 | He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 12 | This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 14 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 15 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 16 | About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low-margin and loss-making businesses . |
| 17 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 18 | That 's , I du n no why , I hate rice because it if you cook it too much it smells like it 's come out of a a |
| 19 | This example of one case discussion , lifted out of a sequence of weekly meetings , may appear a laborious way of achieving small gains , consuming time which teachers , pressed as they are , can little afford . |
| 20 | Both , according to the latest figures conjured out of a hat by the French , have just over 35 per cent of the market . |
| 21 | ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 . |
| 22 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 23 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 24 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 25 | ‘ For a man is formed and torn out of a man ’ . |
| 26 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 27 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 28 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 29 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 30 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |