Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like someone struggling out of a drugged sleep , Sarella flickered open her eyelids , blinking in confusion as if unsure as to where she was . |
| 2 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 3 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 4 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 5 | That I came out of an egg . ’ |
| 6 | I wake up of a morning and wonder what 's happened . |
| 7 | To praise him , I stare out of a bay window |
| 8 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 9 | Mind you I suppose out of a catalogue it 's at least you can feel them and see them all that . |
| 10 | Someone dashed out of an alleyway , pumping a shotgun . |
| 11 | And pause like someone coming out of a wood . |
| 12 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
| 13 | I looked out of a window to see what he was looking at , but there seemed to be nothing of great note , only the racegoing passengers streaming off their forward carriages en route to write postcards home from the station . |
| 14 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 15 | Whenever I go out of a room I am certain to switch off the light . |
| 16 | I went out of a daytime working , chequebooks and all that kind of thing , but it gets boring after a while . |
| 17 | If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper |
| 18 | I fell out of a window and then relapsed into unconsciousness punctuated with severe but well-directed vomitings . |
| 19 | ‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old . |
| 20 | ‘ Like I fell out of a tree in the Garden of Eden . ’ |
| 21 | I fell out of a tree . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think I fell out of a boat ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps I fell out of a plane , ’ she said despondently . |
| 24 | I wheel out of a bar and there she is , arms folded in a doorway across the street . |
| 25 | ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says . |
| 26 | I think I stayed out of a sense of loyalty and I began to enjoy it much more . |
| 27 | ‘ I jumped out of an aeroplane and discovered I 'd forgotten my parachute . |
| 28 | There again make sure nobody hanging out of a window or somebody doing summat daft , walking a to along top of roofs . |
| 29 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 30 | Jasper stood looking at the bell rope which came out of a small square aperture at what was the base of the campanile . |