Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fresh-faced and bright-eyed , we five-year-olds trooped off to school : troubled and sophisticated we returned , the stuffing all knocked out of us . |
| 2 | Jimmy had dropped to his knees and was hugging his head , when the noise suddenly snapped out of existence . |
| 3 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 4 | The explanation is relatively straightforward ; the glucose slowly diffuses out of the capillary into the surrounding liquid , creating a gradient of sugar concentration . |
| 5 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 6 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 7 | ‘ The last album just ran out of fun along the way . |
| 8 | Ironically , it was the eventual failure of the gas engine that led to the introduction of electrical power , the wheel finally going out of use in 1962 and sadly , being broken up in 1964 . |
| 9 | The manor always looks out of place to me , a Victorian shooting lodge built in the style of a German castle for the wealthy Kay Shuttleworth family . |
| 10 | With the growing crystallization of powers within the state from the 1860s , the reform of the civil service and the abandonment of political appointments , Simon 's cunning politicking now seemed out of place . |
| 11 | A second small figure now crept out of the darkness and started to edge towards him . |
| 12 | He grabbed a large plastic cylinder filled with flares and other survival gear then climbed out of the hatch . |
| 13 | More than three thousand worked in woodland throughout the country to ensure British industry never ran out of timber . |
| 14 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 15 | And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue . |
| 16 | A neat feature is that the bar always moves out of the way when you get near it , hopping from the top to the bottom of the screen and vice versa . |
| 17 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 18 | Rosie the Rock Hopper often skips out of her enclosure in search of a snack . |
| 19 | In cases of childhood eczema for example , the child often grows out of the condition . |
| 20 | She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her . |
| 21 | If it 'd been me and I were gon na put it there , I would have put a window there to look out of . |
| 22 | This is how the record companies want it , because if one act inexplicably runs out of steam it 's no problem to find another . |
| 23 | Billy names the players he believes have suffered and urges a change in the selection committee currently made up of one representative from the six teams in the inter-pro championships . |
| 24 | Billy names the players he believes have suffered and urges a change in the selection committee currently made up of one representative from the six teams in the inter-pro championships . |
| 25 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 26 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 27 | He had to muzzle it now , for example , as the Collector suddenly bounded out of his three-legged chair and away . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the process soon got out of hand , for reasons having less to do with student need or the demands of a rapidly advancing subject than with professional status , it seemed that every American academic ( the glossy-text phenomenon is almost exclusively American ) would have to have his ( seldom , if ever , her ) own textbook . |
| 29 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 30 | Ferguson got closest last season , his team finally running out of steam at , of all places , Liverpool . |