Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 2 | RUSHES OUT OF THE STABLE |
| 3 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 4 | Occasionally , character steps out of the angular interlocking patterns to hold a bowl or pour from a jug . |
| 5 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 6 | Lilacs out of the dead land , mixing |
| 7 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 8 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 9 | ‘ Who knows , ’ she added , eyes out of the open window , unable to look at Rory for a moment , ‘ it could still come to that . ’ |
| 10 | Rachel Whiteread constructs concrete images out of the invisible space surrounding everyday objects . |
| 11 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 12 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 13 | What Scissormen do is take a series of chaotic noises , disturbed atmospherics and fragments of other people 's music , then hammer melodies and songs out of the cacophonous melée . |
| 14 | A pale yellow lustre was growing low down in the east , making feathery silhouettes out of the black stands of trees along the bends in the river . |
| 15 | He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them . |
| 16 | He noticed the pieces with which Wyvis Hall was furnished , taking books out of the public library on antiques and porcelain and measuring the remembered articles against illustrations , catching his breath sometimes at mounting values . |
| 17 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 18 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |
| 19 | It is an exhilarating walk to the Point , where the cliffs tower to a height of 300 feet , but the great feature that tempts motorists from their cars is a spectacular detached column of rock that rises 200 feet out of the angry waves at its base . |
| 20 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |
| 21 | Quinn folded the wires and clothes-peg into the space left in the open box , pulled the wires out of the brown substance . |
| 22 | They were particularly reluctant to subsidize council house rents out of the general rate in order to allow farm workers access to local authority housing . |
| 23 | On June 21 there had been reports that 200 Miskito Indians out of the estimated 2,000 belonging to the Yatama resistance movement had disbanded on the Atlantic coast . |
| 24 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 25 | The guitar would be recognisable by chips out of the treble side of the pickup covers ; however , it has never resurfaced and , like Scotty Moore 's ES295 , there are probably hundreds of so-called ‘ originals ’ around the world . |
| 26 | As a result of these Land elections , the federal CDU-CSU-FDP coalition in the Bundesrat regained its majority ( which it had lost to the SPD after Land elections in May 1990 — see p. 37467 ) , with 35 seats out of the new total of 68 . |
| 27 | In France , the Communists with 9 per cent of the vote won 23 seats out of the 577 , while the National Front with 13 per cent won no seats at all . |
| 28 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 29 | Ascii figures 30–50 VARs out of the 200 who sell Informix should bite . |
| 30 | This means that , although it was originally intended to publish a longer work , it was never completed and that the three volumes out of the planned six , or some other combination , are all that will ever be available , unless some other author is eventually commissioned to complete the job . |