Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |
| 2 | The post would only be used for people who lived out of the dale . |
| 3 | Beyond that , we 've got to assume that the main source for instruments was the same as for everybody else who lived out of the range of urban merchandising , and that 's catalogues : Montgomery Ward , Sears & Roebuck and places like that . |
| 4 | ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow |
| 5 | GOVERNOR Bill Clinton was beating Mr Jerry Brown in early polling in New York 's Democratic primary election yesterday , but Mr Paul Tsongas , who dropped out of the presidential race three weeks ago , was running a strong third . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old Teessider , who dropped out of the British decathlon trial at Sheffield last weekend after eight events , has chosen not to chase the Barcelona qualifying score , 7,850 points , in Germany before the selection deadline , June 28 . |
| 7 | 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 — |
| 8 | A Western resident of Timisoara said that the scale of the violence in the town on Sunday was horrifying , while a Yugoslav lorry driver who came out of the region yesterday reported seeing fires . |
| 9 | This incensed his wife who came out of the house , shouting abuse . |
| 10 | And what about Whittingham … he 's a Gloucestershire lad … who came out of the army to start shooting goals for Pompey … he 's already scored two hat-tricks this season … last saturday he killed off Luton Town by scoring three of Portsmouth 's four goals … he 's enjoying his best ever start to a season … he can hit the ball hard … head with power … and finish with skill … |
| 11 | The man who climbed out of the freight car was at least six feet five inches high , a couple of inches taller than the other man , with a horrendously scarred face and a dyed blond pigtail dangling grotesquely from the back of an otherwise shaven head . |
| 12 | Watched from above by proscenium cherubs , and in the spirit of One Nation first enunciated by Disraeli and all that , Michael Stardust held forth , he who walked out of the Cabinet and resigned . |
| 13 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 14 | Even in the absence of Peter Logan and Ernie Liggett , who pulled out of the match through injury , the home pack played splendidly . |
| 15 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 16 | However , the theory also points out that Etruscan kings are required in the lineage of Roman kings so it is by no means clear that the Romans who emerged out of the Etruscan shadows in the late sixth-century were true descendants of Romulus himself . |
| 17 | But this did not deter Mum who leaned out of the window . |
| 18 | Gerard Brett , wounded in both legs , had been dragged to the protection of a low wall before his team slipped across the caisson , killing two Germans who appeared out of the gloom on the east side . |
| 19 | He had had severe headaches and depression , and was made nervous by a warning of treachery from a madman who ran out of the woods . |
| 20 | Shannon slept badly that night , haunted by dreams of great swirling snowflakes and a hawk-faced man who loomed out of the deadly white mass with fury in his eyes . |