Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 2 | Roger suddenly began to struggle out of his wet shirt . |
| 3 | ‘ Maurice only had to walk out of the Ibrox ground and the abuse he took was amazing . |
| 4 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 5 | Now , the day had grown dark but I was a burly rogue , carrying sword and dagger , yet my assailants just seemed to step out of the shadows . |
| 6 | He said , he just said get out of it ! |
| 7 | She just wanted to dash out of the house and let the rain cool some of the thoughts flying around in her mind . |
| 8 | But I 'd had a bellyful of your family and I just wanted to stay out of the whole rotten business . |
| 9 | ‘ What would happen if anyone just wanted to get out of the partnership — I mean , without a death being involved ? ’ |
| 10 | No way they could see I just wanted to get out of their prison . |
| 11 | I just wanted to get out of there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 13 | He was in no hurry , but just wanted to get out of that town as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I just wanted to get out of there . ’ |
| 15 | I just wanted to get out of there . |
| 16 | Maybe I just wanted to get out of that room . ’ |
| 17 | Women very quickly got left out of the picture and it was a very conservative state that took over . |
| 18 | Instead of trying to walk , doggy paddle , Heathcliffe always tried to climb out of the water ; hence , he generally ended up on his back , legs lashing away hopelessly , until disappearing under the surface . |
| 19 | I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet . |
| 20 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 21 | But she also wanted to get out of this mess with an ounce of pride , and she was n't going to be able to do that if she was prising details about Matthew from the chambermaids , even if it was through Mandy ! |
| 22 | What he really needed to come out of this marriage smelling of roses was a lucky accident . |
| 23 | We eventually managed to fly out of the city under a thick cloud of smoke through which the sun was unable to penetrate , and which was present from Sarawak to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore . |
| 24 | Indeed , at times she even seemed to go out of her way to draw attention to herself . |
| 25 | People presently came flowing out of the door and spread between the gravestones . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't , ’ said Damian in the cramped interior beside her , then moved to look out of her window , his body pressing against hers , one powerful arm across her , his hard chest against her breasts . |
| 27 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 28 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |
| 29 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 30 | They angered their EC colleagues , who were first persuaded to back the Greek argument and then had to wriggle out of it , and the United Nations , which got hauled into the dispute . |