Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A faint wisp of smoke rose ahead of me from the town dump . |
| 2 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 3 | " Ah , hell , what 's the point ? " came out of him in a choking sob , and he put his arm over his face . |
| 4 | Whoever you blame on the scum transfer fiasco he came out of it as a two-faced hypocrite . |
| 5 | Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late . |
| 6 | Stephen walked ahead of her on the river bank . |
| 7 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 8 | With her mind reeling , Merrill walked ahead of him down the stairs and out into the windy street . |
| 9 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 10 | She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart . |
| 11 | Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket . |
| 12 | They formed a circle round him and he broke out of it into a gallop , tearing round and round the square in a high-spirited frenzy . |
| 13 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 14 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 15 | McLure , the Spons-A-Tee Northern Amateur Masters Champion picked up valuable points towards retaining the title thanks to his win at Seaton Carew , but he looked out of it after a first round 79 , despite a birdie at the 18th . |
| 16 | Large spiders and segmented insects streamed ahead of her through the leaves , as if to escape attack . |
| 17 | At ground level the street was lined with traditional little native shops , most of them carpenters , it seemed ; and as they came through the Tentmakers ' Bazaar , with its gay awnings and saddle-cloth and leather work , they saw ahead of them in the archway of the gate the gleam of the blue tiles of the tiny Dervish mosque . |
| 18 | Sabine stared ahead of her through the windscreen . |
| 19 | He went ahead of her to the concert hall , bought the tickets , and stood waiting for her in the foyer . |
| 20 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 21 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 22 | She went ahead of him into the living room . |
| 23 | The abundance of such stories amongst black sportsmen indicates clearly that , at the point of exit from school , they had fairly clear and well-rounded conceptions about what lay ahead of them in the world of employment . |
| 24 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 25 | About the year 944/1537–8 , the two kazaskers , Ebussu'ud Efendi and Civizade , the latter a teacher of Molla Bostan 's , spoke well of him in the presence of Sultan Suleyman ; and as a result of their intercession , and of the sultan 's interest in a monograph that Molla Bostan had recently written , it was decreed that he should be appointed to a medrese . |
| 26 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 27 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 28 | So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted . |
| 29 | Holly-jack waved , then pointed ahead of them to the north . |