Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |
| 2 | The Cold War had developed out of mutual suspicions , particularly over the German problem ( CORE , pp. 81–7 ) , and also out of misunderstandings . |
| 3 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 4 | These latter had fallen out of traditional summer grazing use during the present century and official encouragement ( mainly through SAFER — Societe d'Amenagement Foncie et d'Etablissement Rural ) has been given to establishing farmers ' associations for their re-use by cattle . |
| 5 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 6 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
| 7 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 8 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 9 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |
| 10 | The controversy over affiliation had grown out of all proportion , driving the party into an isolation which neither its leaders nor its members really desired . |
| 11 | Many people argued that , as the polytechnics had moved out of local government , two separate funding bodies made little sense and hindered the development of an integrated system of higher education . |
| 12 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 13 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 14 | Zoe had opted out of all domestic commitments . |
| 15 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 16 | They only saw him : it was very sudden , just as if he had materialized out of thin air . |
| 17 | The very mention of his name caused her to tremble , and in his company she had the curious sensation that her feet and her nose had enlarged out of all proportion . |
| 18 | There were no photographs of her in the house in King Street , and the photographs Stephen had seen he had wrested out of old Mrs Naulls . |
| 19 | Western Europe had wriggled out of that one by the end of the 11th century . |
| 20 | Not only ordinary citizens but the savings banks were caught unawares by the decree , and there were chaotic scenes at bank branches as distraught pensioners found that cashiers had run out of lower denomination notes , and had not been issued with the new Rbs50 and Rbs100 notes . |
| 21 | Harold , rather forgetful of his purpose , proceeded to upbraid the guests in a positively violent fashion and then , when he had run out of personal ammunition , he said to Haines , ‘ Joe , tell them of any specific complaints that we have . |
| 22 | Slatter and his friend , Robert James , had run out of ready cash and had resorted to begging with menaces from the more vulnerable customers . |
| 23 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 24 | All the love and devotion which had poured out of those once-bright eyes reassured Marjorie that , somehow , Lizzie actually understood . |
| 25 | He was armed with an archaeological book he had dug out of that bulging briefcase of his and was on his hands and knees sifting through a pile of discarded bones . ’ |