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

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1 It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another .
2 When they first started coming out of the box they would just sit wherever they happened to land after stretching their wings .
3 He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet .
4 A man I knew came out of the block next to mine .
5 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
6 Because the coffin had to come out of the stayed in the house the b the
7 ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded .
8 We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows .
9 had come out of the house .
10 Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed .
11 Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be .
12 Instead , he concentrated on a bit of good news that had come out of the Munich mess .
13 He followed her , howling and swearing , so that Teresa , who had come out of the kitchen at the tremendous noise , cowered against the door and put up her arms to protect herself from what she believed would be an attack .
14 Miss Thomas said he had been concerned that the call had come out of the blue .
15 It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation .
16 Far from it : he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans .
17 By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away .
18 In it Christian psychiatrists , care workers , medical experts , ministers and those who had come out of the occult scene , spoke of the appalling wake of damage left by the occult .
19 She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained .
20 These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class .
21 The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe .
22 They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again .
23 This led to the collapse in many universities of not only traditional moral theories but also many of the great idealistic philosophies ( such as Kant 's , for example ) that had come out of the Enlightenment itself .
24 Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses .
25 Two nomes had come out of the grass .
26 Nothing had come out of the dark to bug her .
27 As the target had come out of the hotel , his hand had stiffened on the grip of the Ruger in the plastic bag and he had eased his weight towards the passenger door .
28 N1207V had come out of the Tallmantz auction and its new owner leased the aircraft to 20th Century Fox for use in the film .
29 Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt .
30 Desmond Fairchild , hearing her shouting the minutes in the passage , had come out of the lavatory still holding himself .
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