Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a low-slung sofa with a faded loose cover ; a rocking-chair with canvas strips hanging out of the bottom ; and a broad oak table on metal castors . |
| 2 | The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds . |
| 3 | The surrounding countryside is windswept and rocky , moss-bedecked flints sticking out of the ground like primitive blades . |
| 4 | ‘ The beds are unmade and there are dirty knickers sticking out of the washing machine . |
| 5 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 6 | Agnes is losing patience and revenue , I 've practically got my legs sticking out of the Boomerang window , when there 's this heavy handslap on the roof of the car . |
| 7 | That was to the tune of 38–3 in an Arms Park qualifying match and sent the Dragons tumbling out of the World Cup . |
| 8 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 9 | According to the Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , which still has one of the few non-Romanian journalists operating out of the country , the committee consists of lawyers , artists , and workers , but there is still no sign of a leader or a programme . |
| 10 | She turned towards the shallow stone steps leading out of the square . |
| 11 | Health : Bridging the dental divide With more dentists moving out of the NHS , private insurance can ease the expense , finds Ann Steele |
| 12 | and then you 've got smaller branches coming off of the smaller branches |
| 13 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 14 | On top of it there was a copper funnel , and there were rods coming out of the end of the funnel attached to a wheel . |
| 15 | They flowed from every avenue of the kitchen , a waist-high tide of grubby , grey-cowled figures rushing in towards him , their coloured boots , sashes and hat-brims swirling out of the mist . |
| 16 | I particularly remember him at parties diving out of the window for fresh air . |
| 17 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 18 | The equivalent wage for the same ratings sailing out of the north east coast were £pound10 for Britishers and £pound6 for Chinamen , out of the Bristol Channel and London £pound9 and £pound6.10s and out of Liverpool £pound8.10s and £pound6 . |
| 19 | It may be that a court of equity will regard the bank as affected by equities arising out of the manner in which the husband persuades his wife to agree to the proposed transaction . |
| 20 | The clearest example of considerations which affect authoritative decisions but which do not apply to individuals acting on their own are considerations arising out of the needs and limitations of bureaucracies . |
| 21 | Proposals are currently under consideration to transfer contractual disputes arising out of the employment relationship from the civil courts to the industrial tribunals , but no enabling legislation has yet been implemented to secure this . |
| 22 | Along the broken kerb of the road stood a line of taxis , their drivers dozing in the back seats with their legs dangling out of the open doors . |
| 23 | ‘ Any wires sticking out of the chair are strictly HMG 's parsimony nothing to do with your heartbeat or perspiration rate . |
| 24 | Internally the keyboard can only accept the ZX Spectrum 's main PCB with the various connectors hanging out of the back through slots . |
| 25 | Next we searched the entire barn for anything sharp — nails sticking out of the walls , for example — that might cut or harm them . |
| 26 | Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside . |
| 27 | He reached the top of the bank , lizards scattering out of the way in front of him . |
| 28 | Some 80 per cent of all Madagascar 's species are unique to the island-continent , which stretches a thousand miles long , with rainforest , woodland , spiny desert , and rocky massifs jutting out of the plain . |
| 29 | If anything was growing at an alarming rate , it was the network of railway lines running out of the centre of London to outlying suburbs . |
| 30 | In the best of worlds the provisions of the partnership agreement will cover all eventualities arising out of the departure of a member of the firm . |