Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 4 | No need to explain one 's reasons for suddenly looking out of the window . |
| 5 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 6 | The eyes of the riled flare , literally popping out of the sockets . |
| 7 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 8 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 9 | The first Unix Reseller Show & Conference , set for May 4–6 , 1993 in Dallas , is apparently coming out of the blocks stronger than anticipated . |
| 10 | Nearly two decades later his installation Art Show at the Centre Pompidou foregrounded figures with tape decks for hearts , which gave out phoney art jargon , with hot air literally coming out of the figures ’ vents ( Rickey 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It was a fine warm autumn evening and although the light was already dying out of the sky the trees still looked magnificent , shades of gold and red blending with some still-green foliage . |
| 12 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 13 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 14 | She was already scrambling out of the jeep . |
| 15 | They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance . |
| 16 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 17 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 18 | A flood of Literary Lionisers was already pouring out of the railway station , fighting in well-bred fashion over victorias and landaus . |
| 19 | Blindly , she followed him , and in the entrance she bumped into Stan , a burly policeman in black waterproofs who was just heading out of the department . |
| 20 | But moments later , he emerged with his freight , to find that Godolphin was already marching out of the copse that screened the Retreat from both the house ( empty , of course ; in ruins ) and any casual spy who peered over the wall . |
| 21 | I was just moving out of the way . |
| 22 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 23 | As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance . |
| 24 | The right-hand page lay still , and in the spine a few white petals lay , and a single hard bud of blackthorn , the white blossom just breaking out of the dark husk . |
| 25 | I notice it 's not coming out of the police authority budget , it 's coming out of publi , er this , this er committee 's budget . |
| 26 | You 're not walking , not about widespread privatisation , but creeping privatisation and you 're now talking about not opting out of the National Health Service but you 're now talking about opting out of local national Health Service control . |
| 27 | Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it . |
| 28 | Michael Jackson ( right ) , circa 1980 : pre-surgery , pre-Bubbles , but already opting out of the lifestyle everyday mortals lead |
| 29 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 30 | Unlike Alexai Ybreska , Zhukov was not disappearing out of the country in a hurry . |