Example sentences of "[adv prt] of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then nothing to suggest that — granted he walked in of his own will — he did n't walk out the same way ? ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless he always remained undaunted and could hardly wait for the winding up of his previous effort before starting to plan its successor . |
| 3 | She got up stiffly from the table , with one last look at the scowling form of the man trying to work a way out of his hopeless situation , then walked slowly , limping a little , over the scratched glass floor of the room to the bright chill of the balcony . |
| 4 | For Dick Pountaine , fresh out of his Imperial College science degree , and moving within Notting Hill 's underground milieu , a visit to the RSSF 's inauguration had been a gloomy experience . |
| 5 | Before Charles left the house in Pangbourne , he took the envelope of photographs out of his inside pocket and looked at them . |
| 6 | Unlike so many brilliant teachers I thought that Basil was completely altruistic — this was born out of his great generosity . |
| 7 | The Bishop of Rochester ( Haymo de Hythe ) , out of his small household lost four priests , five gentlemen , ten serving men , seven young clerks and six pages , so not a soul remained to serve him . " |
| 8 | Paul Reichmann , meanwhile , had moved out of his small apartment into a large home and a matchmaker had found a devotedly religious bride for him from Tangier . |
| 9 | He stared out of his bodily prison and cursed them . |
| 10 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 11 | PUSHED his way through police cordons , CLAMBERED inside one of the mangled carriages and REACHED a screaming man who had a bone sticking out of his ripped trousers . |
| 12 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 13 | He should be able to spare £5,000 out of his golden handshake . |
| 14 | But right out of his real self . |
| 15 | He could slip out of his depressed moods very quickly . |
| 16 | Out of his advanced lectures emerged a powerful refutation of the entire Gnostic world-view and principles of biblical interpretation , a work entitled On First Principles . |
| 17 | Played , he played out of his bloody skin till half way . |
| 18 | He had felt betrayed by the visit , after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it . |
| 19 | Beck has got the best out of his limited resources and no-one can knock his results . |
| 20 | How did he burst out of his crepuscular oubliette of unnoticeability on this occasion ? |
| 21 | He 's due to visit an eye specialist tomorrow to find out whether he 'll ever see out of his right eye again . |
| 22 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 23 | Sharpe shouted , and at the same time he raked his spurs back so savagely that the exhausted and astonished mare jerked forward , almost spilling Sharpe out of his tall Hussar 's saddle . |
| 24 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 25 | So he 's in a bit of ideological bother even before he steps out of his front door . |
| 26 | ‘ What difference does it make ? ’ frank looked at her out of his sunken eyes . |
| 27 | Mervyn had his back to them and was getting a bottle of sherry and some glasses out of his private cupboard . |
| 28 | He 'd tried to bluff and bully his way out of his terrible mistake , but Volkov would n't be intimidated . |
| 29 | The most he could borrow and be sure of just being able to pay back the debt out of his future income is ( 1/1 + i ) Y t+1 ; ; this is his discounted future income . |
| 30 | He took a pipe out of his overall pocket and started to light it . |