Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 2 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 3 | Women from along the street came out of their front doors too . |
| 4 | Thankfully both pilots came out of their fleeting meeting physically unscathed but both will remember the event forever more . |
| 5 | Written by Mae Brown , Chris Bennetts and Jane Sloan , the book came out of their different professional experiences of working with boy victims of two paedophile rings disclosed in 1990 in Cornwall . |
| 6 | These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion . |
| 7 | Instinctively her audience came out of their bemused state and worked quickly . |
| 8 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 9 | And the birds turned up of their own volition ? |
| 10 | A notorious critic of Hollywood , he justified taking the job by declaring he would break the stranglehold of the agents , who tied the studios up with pre-wrapped packages made up of their own clients : stars , writers and directors . |
| 11 | Australia soaked the pressure , punished Ireland 's handling blunders and scampered out of their 22 at will to score tries that numbed the huge crowd . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they were blindfolded before they got out of their own car that morning , as you know . |
| 13 | Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner . |
| 14 | The idea grew out of their weekly meetings and from the desire to inform younger West Indians about their heritage . |
| 15 | The woman showed her a bundle of tiny packages , secret notes , from some of the disappeared men , smuggled out of their secret jail by one of the guards . |