Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 32 | ( Miles had already spoken gloomily of the inevitable price rises which the Middle East situation must precipitate . |
| 33 | The Llangurig line is a classic in this respect ; much of the damage is due to nature and man has not gone out of his way to remove a monument of the past . |
| 34 | Leaks at compression joints ( page 23 ) can usually be cured by tightening the nuts ( make sure the pipe has n't pulled out of the sealing ring ) ; curing a leak in soldered capillary joints and solvent-welded joints in plastic pipes is more difficult and usually involves draining and remaking the joint ( pages 22 and 28 ) . |
| 35 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 36 | Football clashes between the age-old rivals have ground to a halt partly because outpourings of nationalism have sometimes got out of hand . |
| 37 | Stars have always gone out of their way to watch them |
| 38 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 39 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 40 | And in EastEnders Arthur Fowler had just come out of prison after getting into deep money trouble . |
| 41 | It was held that the virtue had not gone out of films as films . |
| 42 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 43 | One of the young men had just come out of prison , and there were many cheerful jokes about his very short hair-cut . |
| 44 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 45 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 46 | What seemed to have happened was that Scotland 's economic cycle had gradually moved out of synchronisation with the national one . |
| 47 | Children have not grown out of behaviours which were acceptable when they were much younger . |
| 48 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |
| 49 | ‘ She said Sunnie had finally run out of steam , ’ said Mr Sadler . |
| 50 | Now that Bernard left industrial action to others , the heart had quite gone out of the staff 's work-to-rule and normal relations were resumed . |
| 51 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 52 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 53 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 54 | Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt . |
| 55 | The steam has completely gone out of that . |
| 56 | Either that or you know that the press has completely run out of lies to write about you . |
| 57 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 58 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 59 | The French Commandos firing their captured German mortar had probably run out of bombs . |
| 60 | How can a cycle covering such an immense time-span have ever evolved out of random mutational steps ? |