Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 2 | That 's all I got out of this one boy ! |
| 3 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 4 | Then , in a blink , the pictures of Mum and Mrs Dinwiddie and the sea of mud vanished , and I came out of that station floating six inches above the ground . |
| 5 | I came out of slippered retirement and enjoyed a late bonus by visiting the old familiar places once again — but this time with a master cameraman . |
| 6 | That 's the only reason I slunk out of that place ! |
| 7 | Having been deemed ignorant I dropped out of many of these discussions , finding them too oppressive . |
| 8 | I dropped out of sixth form because of a young Frenchman with green eyes . |
| 9 | Yet , by his own admission , ‘ I tuned out of pop music with Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 11 | I was shocked , angry and frightened and , although I walked out of that courtroom with my life in pieces , there was nobody there to help me . |
| 12 | I walked out of that big , blue door and once more let the light stream in , for today would be its only chance , for this week anyway . |
| 13 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 14 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 15 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 16 | Where 's the scruffy page I tore out of that magazine at the dentist 's ? |
| 17 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 18 | I did n't make any enquiries about how the laundry got done until the day I ran out of clean tights . |
| 19 | Well , the Cs looked promising to begin with , with R.C. Russell and C.C. Lewis to kick it off in style , but after finding a find opening pair in B.C. Broad and T.C. Middleton , and two more seam bowlers in M.C. Ilott and G.C. Small , I ran out of likely candidates , although two Kent discards , S.C . |
| 20 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 21 | Mormon 's orchard four , that 's all you got out of that lot . |
| 22 | ‘ Because when you came out of that theatre party , despite singing our song so wonderfully , you looked at me as if you did n't know me . ’ |
| 23 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who has not been seen since she walked out of Broadgreen Hospital , Liverpool , two weeks ago . |
| 24 | Some of the objets d'art were bought on her orders , at home and abroad ; others she prised out of rich Iranians who often found her acquisitiveness on behalf of the country irksome but impossible to resist . |
| 25 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 26 | That panelling though that you took out of that hall was beautiful . |
| 27 | ‘ It was … umm fun , ’ she said out of some kind of loyalty to Nelson 's masculine ego . |
| 28 | Well , she come out of that there shed : well , you would have laughed if you 'd ha' seen har . |
| 29 | Shit , she wanted out of this mess . |
| 30 | As we sit to yet another cup of greasy coffee in a steamed-up café I suggest it 's time we got out of all this . |