Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 2 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 3 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 4 | A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left . |
| 5 | I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night . |
| 6 | It came moaning towards them out of the blackness . |
| 7 | At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic . |
| 8 | A large sign swooped towards them out of the night , its message glowing luminously in the beam of the headlights . |
| 9 | And he ran past me out of the room . |
| 10 | ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door . |
| 11 | Richards 's share was rather larger , 93 to be precise , the fourteen overs yielding 106 runs as Richards hammered 21 fours and five sixes — one of them out of the ground — in all , for 189 not out off 170 balls . |
| 12 | Fear has driven many of them out of the job . |
| 13 | In the end Bartocci solved the problem by shooing both of them out of the office and leading Zen downstairs . |
| 14 | Foster , frustrated by a number of near misses and a dropped catch , turned to take his anger out on the stumps , kicking two of them out of the ground . |
| 15 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 16 | Oh charming , I see , since when did you last chucked one of yours out of the beasties . |
| 17 | I want the pair of you out of the office in ten minutes . |
| 18 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 19 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 20 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 21 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 22 | ‘ All you can do now , ’ she said , ‘ is knock both of mine out of the way . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 24 | Everywhere she went in the flat , she seemed to catch sight of it out of the corner of her eye . |
| 25 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 26 | It did n't stop but came on towards us out of the trees . |
| 27 | The headland looming ahead of us out of the growing daylight would be the one immediately to the west of the cottage . |
| 28 | With you out of the way I can have it anyway . ’ |
| 29 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 30 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |