Example sentences of "[adv prt] of a [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 POLICE are hunting a mugger who tipped a baby out of a pushchair as it was being pushed by a 64-year-old woman .
2 ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely .
3 It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies .
4 ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward .
5 Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce .
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