Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 2 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 3 | Suddenly the leafy green tunnel gives way to a clearing gouged out of the hooded wood . |
| 4 | And that was why , when Paula 's face swam out of the murky clouds and peered incuriously at him , Miles Engado screamed . |
| 5 | Sacco peered out of the stricken doorway . |
| 6 | Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box . |
| 7 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 8 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
| 9 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp Stadium . |
| 10 | IVAN LENDL , the No 4 seed , crashed out of the European Community Championships in Antwerp yesterday , beaten 6–4 , 6–2 in the second round by unseeded Australian Mark Woodforde . |
| 11 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp stadium . |
| 12 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead at home . |
| 13 | The hounds crashed out of the far side of the covert and swung away from Artemis and her father uphill . |
| 14 | RUSSELL HOULT conceded the first goals of his professional career and was lucky not to be sent off as Leicester crashed out of the Anglo Italian Cup . |
| 15 | Short was co-driver for the British hope David Llewellin , but on Tuesday their British-prepared Toyota Celica crashed out of the five-day , 2,000-mile event . |
| 16 | In the United States the long dominant Democratic New Deal electoral coalition , which Franklin Roosevelt created out of the white south and the industrial working-class , has been in retreat . |
| 17 | From Western Province , he moved out of the first-class game to Boland but last year returned to the South African top flight with Orange Free State . |
| 18 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
| 19 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 20 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 21 | He di , he 's , I think he 's the only person who never moved out of the same place . |
| 22 | Further , it will document the experience of families as they moved out of the old tenements , often slums , into their new houses in the new schemes . |
| 23 | Since you moved out of the old house we ca n't stay with you and Jane hates hotels . |
| 24 | Scritti Politti also moved out of the shadowy margins and proposed a schizoid project — the making of perfect pop that contains its own internal deconstruction . |
| 25 | He moved out of the bright firelight into the shadows by the wall as if hoping to escape further questioning . |
| 26 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 27 | S is the seed of the apple A which sprouted out of the unwholsome manure that B became after she was dead and buried . |
| 28 | The pale trunks of giant ramon trees rose out of the layered undergrowth of fan palms and creepers . |
| 29 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 30 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |