Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 2 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 3 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 4 | They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight . |
| 5 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 6 | … the black and red patterned blanket folded over with the top sheet to form two parallel white borders from which the planes move slowly off , rise suddenly and vanish or come in out of the low grey cloud … . ( 10–11/404–5 ) |
| 7 | She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything . |
| 8 | The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow . |
| 9 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 10 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 11 | So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there . |
| 12 | Here 's Headley Feast with a run down today of the top football action . |
| 13 | Two Rob Roy canoes had been in ahead of the main raiding force on the night of 22/3 November , one pair of these canoeists were caught — described later — and the second missed their rendezvous , paddling back to England . |
| 14 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 15 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 16 | A fifty-pound bomb , planted in his fishing boat , exploded as he set off out of the little harbour of Mullaghmore to inspect lobster pots . |
| 17 | Camille Aryeetey , buyer at WADE SMITH in Mathew Street , says Versace and Ozbek numbers are being snapped up regardless of the three-figure price tags . |
| 18 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 19 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 20 | Rory got up out of the creaking wooden seat and walked unsteadily over to where Fergus lay on the bare wooden floorboards , head against the ancient , burst couch . |
| 21 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 22 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 23 | He just showed up out of the blue one day while Nathan was working . |
| 24 | Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems . |
| 25 | You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything , just like that . |
| 26 | Precious moments of light relief came when a couple of friends would turn up out of the blue and say , ‘ Come to the Indian Restaurant ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 28 | There was a mangle in one room rearing up out of the cardboard boxes like a stag , the chaos ( or the wolves ) had not yet pulled down . |
| 29 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 30 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |