Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mankind seeks status even more avidly than wealth , and more self-corruptingly ; and intellectual affectation can be a darker sin than whatever vulgarities arise out of a simple greed for gain . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite a few people suffer mental health problems because their problems arising out of a bereavement are not being dealt with . ’ |
| 3 | The driver was bent over the wheel , while his passengers leant out of their windows waving and shouting to attract the attention of the taxi driver . |
| 4 | That band , the Drop Nineteens , have finally made it to Britain , 18 months after their demos slipped out of Boston to seduce a briefly shoe-gazing-infatuated press . |
| 5 | Apart from a silver cup sent by Sir Hans Sloane in 1742 , with which John Bartram was ‘ well pleased that thy name is engraved upon it at large , so that when my friends drink out of it , they may see who was my benefactor ’ and a gold medal from a Society of Gentlemen in Edinburgh , tangible appreciation was slow to cross the Atlantic . |
| 6 | Even as her senses swam out of focus from the sweet , cruel pleasure he was inflicting , he insisted on taking her one heartless step further . |
| 7 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 8 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |