Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , blink once or twice , change eye focus , look into the distance — perhaps out of the window — then look down to the floor . |
| 2 | Erm very successful priced basically out of the price the market eventually . |
| 3 | Fishbane 's bedroom is somewhat out of the way and near the lift , so that the ladies can be discreetly smuggled up there by Ramsbum . |
| 4 | But then , at first glance , Vic was somewhat out of the ordinary . |
| 5 | Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen . |
| 6 | He is also replacing his receiver and turning to gaze thoughtfully out of the window . |
| 7 | Others even claim that the present knowledge of man and his mind is nil and that real culture will arise only out of the knowledge of the sequence of human DNA . |
| 8 | Dio Cassius describes the difficulties with which the Romans subdued the ancient Britons , who hid in the marshes ‘ with their heads only out of the water ! ’ |
| 9 | Cassie dropped her pen and moved swiftly out of the room and down the steps onto the landing . |
| 10 | He motioned with his head to Antony , who nodded and went swiftly out of the room and up the stairs . |
| 11 | The sight had brought her as swiftly out of the house as a child who sees the ice-cream van . |
| 12 | She swung round and walked swiftly out of the office . |
| 13 | He lit a cigarette and sat staring gloomily out of the window . |
| 14 | Most of the year , the matrons of Tollemarche regarded their husbands as nuisances better out of the house , but the ball was an occasion for which husbands , sweethearts , even brothers , were in great demand . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , whilst a joint campaign with the Communist Party and other political organizations was entirely out of the question , the Labour leadership felt compelled to adjust its policy with regard to Spain . |
| 16 | But in order to convince the public of what it really amounts to , I decided to do something entirely out of the ordinary , that is , to get Wolfgang to write an opera for the theatre . |
| 17 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 18 | Over the crest at the High Cross , erupting suddenly out of the declivity beyond , and certainly from the Welsh gate , the hard drumming of hooves burst upon their ears , coming at a gallop . |
| 19 | ‘ I could hear their croaking and their arguments and they came ever nearer until suddenly out of the mist I saw the grey shadow of a wing and wet spike of a beak . |
| 20 | The dark mouth of the alleyway between the high buildings loomed suddenly out of the mist at their side . |
| 21 | The trolled and gargoyled buttresses wheel around you through rifts in the cloud ; they stretch , soar , disappear , solidify again suddenly out of the vapour then drift impossibly far up into the mist until your senses reel at the evanescent dynamism of the scene . |
| 22 | A bat may appear suddenly out of the dark close to a moth . |
| 23 | Suddenly out of the blue I received a tape from one of the members of the self-organizing group , the Liberation Network of People With Disabilities . |
| 24 | He came suddenly out of the blackness , looming large above them . |
| 25 | Many teachers were unsure that they would get much out of the appraisal and felt that it would change little , especially in the light of probable cuts in spending in education . |
| 26 | It 's a long way north — apparently out of the mainstream of the chaos which is afflicting Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | leer lopsidedly out of the window |
| 28 | He says , If the cinema should have nudity there , the statues should be inside out of the view of people . |
| 29 | Alyssia nodded and stepped inside out of the rain , allowing herself to be helped out of her jacket , and finding herself responding to the girl 's general comments about the weather . |
| 30 | Nothing could be heard above the noise of the engine , but I saw a lark spring skywards out of the heather , and another , a few minutes later , sink to its rest . |