Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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31 In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network .
32 And yesterday the International Cricket Council astonishingly copped out of the whole issue .
33 Karen and Kee drove out of the small village , down the road , and soon came to the houses of the new town .
34 The pods were split and slit with your thumbnail , then the beans thumbed out of the silky inner case .
35 Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division .
36 GOVERNOR Bill Clinton was beating Mr Jerry Brown in early polling in New York 's Democratic primary election yesterday , but Mr Paul Tsongas , who dropped out of the presidential race three weeks ago , was running a strong third .
37 The 23-year-old Teessider , who dropped out of the British decathlon trial at Sheffield last weekend after eight events , has chosen not to chase the Barcelona qualifying score , 7,850 points , in Germany before the selection deadline , June 28 .
38 We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge .
39 She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room .
40 As the mine developed , and Top , Middle , and Grey Crag , became linked by ore-passes and shafts , more and more ore came out of the lower .
41 Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him .
42 He came out of the non-existent sun at 45 degrees and concentrated on keeping the nose pointing just below the tablecloth , remembering that the Lewis gun would fire high to clear the propeller .
43 That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book .
44 I came out of the hillbilly punk scene that shook up LA , scene where you hung out with your contemporaries and viewed the established rockers with suspicion .
45 There was an inquiry , and the village poor , next in line in the Will , came out of the small print .
46 We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway .
47 At dawn the father came out of the ragged tent among the trees .
48 It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time .
49 Hulagu came out of the clustered spectators .
50 They look like extras from Mary Poppins , ’ she joked.A visit to the home of an old Nepali woman in Dharan town left her moved.As she came out of the tiny thatch-roofed hut with mud floors and no electricity , in which she was huddled with the old woman for several minutes , she said : ‘ I shall never complain again . ’
51 He was stunned to find that if he turned a knob , music came out of the tiny speaker , and he never stopped playing with it .
52 She watched through a crack and at last a nurse came out of the tiny office and went to the lift .
53 Zurachina came out of the largest yurt .
54 Sister , Robins , and Dr Jones came out of the latter 's office .
55 The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it .
56 Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably .
57 Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him .
58 Kiku came out of the inner chamber .
59 Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ?
60 At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity .
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