Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 3 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 4 | They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt . |
| 5 | It was a shrunken Frank , whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit . |
| 6 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man . |
| 8 | The anger seemed to have gone out of him . |
| 9 | ‘ He sort of talked me into it , ’ she said after a pause that seemed to have gone out of control . |
| 10 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 11 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 12 | Administer oxygen if prescribed ( usually humidified to prevent drying up of the mucus and paralysis of the protective cilia ) . |
| 13 | Emmanuel Moatti began to feel left out of things with his stunning display of mainly seventeenth- to eighteenth-century Italian drawings at prices ranging from FFr 10,000–400,000 for a Saint Sebastian study by Guercino . |
| 14 | I had nowhere to go and I kept getting thrown out of places . |
| 15 | As far as I recall , the Krooms were not the best tacticians and kept trying to throng out of holes in the ground only to have their bodies dismembered and decapitated by the two knights . |
| 16 | However I did manage to get out of bed at about 6.30 a.m. , feed and myself and get us both to the stadium at the appointed time for the team photo call . |
| 17 | Sweet was found shot through the head at the roadside beside his grey Ford Escort , which appeared to have run out of petrol . |
| 18 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 19 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 20 | Here a thriving brewing quarter had developed made up of alewife , innkeeper and alehouse brewers . |
| 21 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 22 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 23 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 24 | A mediator from the Catholic church had threatened to pull out of the talks , blaming both sides for intransigence . |
| 25 | At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement . |
| 26 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Wellcome was undergoing its own strategic review and had decided to get out of making vaccines . |
| 28 | Robbie felt disproportionately deflated , considering she had promised to keep out of Fen 's way and mind her own business . |
| 29 | The movement avoided a split with the election of a compromise leadership , consisting of outgoing chair Ivan Drach , the chair of the Rukh political council Mykhailo Horyn , and Vyacheslav Chornovil , after Drach had attempted to lead out of the congress a faction willing to work with the Ukrainian leadership of President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 30 | He had hoped to remain out of their way and gain some thinking time . |