Example sentences of "come [adv prt] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say the Hidden Folk have come out of the mountains and attacked the Rorims to the south in league with the beasts , ’ the landlord whispered confidentially . |
| 2 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 3 | CPMA Managing Director , Nigel Rushman , claims that several other sponsors have already signed for the Sevens spectacular in April at Murrayfield , but for a variety of reasons none has come out of the woods yet . |
| 4 | If it can , good will come out of the traumas that our colleague has suffered and that will be for the good of potential victims . |
| 5 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
| 6 | Over my own shoulder , I saw his face come out of the shadows . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're going to have to come out of the forests … ’ he replied , with a grin like a Cheshire cat . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's so sad because he 's so quick , so experienced and he is the guy who made me raise my own game to come out of the blocks ahead of him . ’ |
| 9 | They were afraid of their shite to come out of the towns . |
| 10 | A voice came out of the flames : ‘ Neil Kinnock is a man of integrity and consistency , a man who will never betray his principles . ’ |
| 11 | However , the confidence and sense of involvement that came out of the meetings ensured that all the men in the group were actually present at the birth of their child , and this might not otherwise have been the case . |
| 12 | Just came out of the Magistrates Court and dropped down dead . |
| 13 | Charles had his own household to deal with his affairs which he had brought together when he came out of the forces . |
| 14 | When he came out of the forces at the end of the Second World War , Billy bought 260 acres ( 105 hectares ) to farm at Dudwa . |
| 15 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 16 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 17 | ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance . |
| 18 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 19 | A little boy came out of the woods opposite and began skiing down the slope towards the road . |
| 20 | With one final corkscrew twist the path came out of the woods , flattened out and meandered along the edge of a lush expanse of green lawn . |
| 21 | In the 1980s , what came out of the mouths of environmentalists was mostly green ; what went in , was often junk . |
| 22 | This was in the study of pragmatics , a fast-growing and popular new area of research in linguistics , which came out of the controversies about meaning which had dominated linguistics around 1970 . |
| 23 | That night El-ahrairah came out of the marshes of Kelfazin and went secretly up to the great ditch . |
| 24 | She came out of the marshes , and she was grey all over grey hair , grey face , grey rags and tatters and all mired and spattered , besides , from the marsh mud . |
| 25 | Upper Gumtree , carrying orange and black , started dead centre of the eleven runners and came out of the stalls heading a formation like an arrow . |
| 26 | He came out of the bedclothes and said , ‘ While I 'm laid up like this , why do n't you do a few concerts on your own ? ’ |
| 27 | A tall thin man came out of the shadows at the bottom of the stone steps . |
| 28 | As he powered the jet down , a yellow Lada came out of the shadows and towards him . |
| 29 | He had reached the corner of his street and was searching in his pocket for his key , when a dark figure came out of the shadows and crossed the road towards him . |
| 30 | He sat , and at once a page came out of the shadows with a tray which contained cups and a flask of wine . |