Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 2 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 3 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 4 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 5 | Not only was the IDE host card hanging out of the slot , the securing screw having gone AWOL , but the ribbon cable was disconnected , too . |
| 6 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 7 | Then he sent the car leaping out of the garage . |
| 8 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 9 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 10 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 11 | THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays . |
| 12 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 13 | THIS WEEK 's attempt to divert the flow of lava gushing out of the erupting Mount Etna in Sicily could be an expensive failure — because a British team of vulcanologists taking essential measurements has had to return home after its money ran out . |
| 14 | US design was offering the evergreen Chevrolet Corvette but the most interesting car coming out of the US — via Britain — was the Ford GT40 , originally a Lola design . |
| 15 | My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak . |
| 16 | Stage 3 represents subsequent developments resulting from the project grant and includes inservice and staff-development activities , the publicising and promotion of good practice coming out of the project , and any other spin-off effects . |
| 17 | By a writ issued on 15 November 1988 and a statement of claim dated 16 February 1990 , the plaintiff , Christopher de Martell , claimed damages from the defendants , the Merton and Sutton Health Authority , for personal injuries and consequential loss arising out of the alleged negligent treatment afforded to him at St. Helier Hospital , Carshalton , on or about 5 February 1967 when his mother , who was pregnant with the plaintiff , underwent an attempted forceps delivery and a caesarean section . |
| 18 | After the judgment Mr de Gruchy said : ‘ The decision enables the NASUWT to continue its action to protect members against excessive workload arising out of the national curriculum testing and assessment arrangements . ’ |
| 19 | It is only through consciousness in action arising out of the contradictions of the real relations , that any transformation of either class consciousness or economic relations will come about . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 21 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 22 | I wolfed down my lunch , charming a second helping out of the all-smiles stewardess . |
| 23 | And he saw El-ahrairah 's bottom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , cup specialists Northop Hall are still on course for a date at Lords in September after sending fancied Christleton tumbling out of the Rothmans National Village Knockout in the zone semi-final . |
| 25 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 26 | When a sheep died or was slaughtered , they would sometimes pack the entrails into a hessian sack and lower it into the beck leading out of the reservoir just below the Hauxwell property . |
| 27 | In his infant years he slept with his mother and two sisters in a single bed , a plank of wood jutting out of the wall . |
| 28 | He joined the slow column heading out of the double doors of the Kitchen . |
| 29 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 30 | It seemed a long way , though , from the summer perfume of myrtle and orange-blossom , the brilliance of white fluted marble , the wreathing steam , the orderly practices of the sugar-yards , the worksongs of the scything and the vintage , the glory of the sun setting , of the sun rising out of the sea . |