Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of a [adj] " 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 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 3 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 4 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 8 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 9 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 10 | The incident happened when the American star threatened to pull out of a rain-drenched open-air concert in Taiwan . |
| 11 | Matusow was one of those lucky , and curious , souls who surfaced out of a curious past — like Michael X/Malik/de Freitas — in those fragmented times . |
| 12 | The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting . |
| 13 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 14 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 15 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 16 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 17 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 20 | Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design . |
| 21 | The gifts of the Spirit come out of a living relationship with the Father . |
| 22 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Over the past year , many a fund manager has had his confidence shattered as supposedly reliable shares that were the solid core of his portfolio — IBM , Merck , Kellogg , Philip Morris — crashed out of a clear blue sky . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 28 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 29 | If a once beautiful and honest young girl has become dishevelled and has dropped out of a promising educational course and is in perpetual trouble with the Police , then it is almost superfluous to ask questions on drug use or to look for physical signs of drug addiction , even though clinical accuracy demands this . |
| 30 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |