Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] of a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row .
2 This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine .
3 He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him .
4 They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place .
5 ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’
6 Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series .
7 About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low-margin and loss-making businesses .
8 ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson .
9 The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement .
10 This example of one case discussion , lifted out of a sequence of weekly meetings , may appear a laborious way of achieving small gains , consuming time which teachers , pressed as they are , can little afford .
11 Both , according to the latest figures conjured out of a hat by the French , have just over 35 per cent of the market .
12 The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners .
13 But the way Bridges plays him he 'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade .
14 But the way Bridges plays him he 'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade .
15 ‘ For a man is formed and torn out of a man ’ .
16 They have been included out of a sense of completeness .
17 They have been included out of a sense of completeness .
18 They have been included out of a sense of completeness .
19 They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment .
20 Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away .
21 He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding .
22 We 've dropped out of a lot of product lines , like simple caps and closures for low value household products and flexible packaging for commodity business .
23 ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’
24 Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs .
25 But the compositions , which are now built up of a series of flat planes mounting upwards behind each other in shallow depth , are clearly derived from Cézanne .
26 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’
27 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
28 Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows .
29 The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) .
30 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
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