Example sentences of "quietly [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room .
2 Someone came quietly out of the crowd and spoke to the other officer , looking at me .
3 Corbett asked the Prior one last favour , one more task , the monk agreed and slipped quietly out of the room .
4 It was a beautiful sunny morning , and at eleven o'clock , after I had done a quick surgery , we chugged quietly out of the harbour , with Lucy at the controls .
5 He let himself quietly out of the house and the silence closed in around Hari , smothering her .
6 ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived .
7 I put the clothes on , and walked quietly out of the castle with him .
8 She said no more , and Liddy went quietly out of the room .
9 Corbett thanked the old nun and slipped quietly out of the chamber in search of the Prioress .
10 Corbett bowed towards Lady Amelia , stepped from the lectern and walked quietly out of the church .
11 You turn out the lights , and ‘ Smee ’ goes quietly out of the room and hides .
12 She allowed herself ten minutes for Nigel and Adrian to get clear of the hotel before slipping her arms into a grey mohair jacket , collecting her shoulder-bag and slipping quietly out of the hotel .
13 She slipped quietly out of the hotel , grateful that none of the other cast members were around to witness her departure , and made her way to the car park .
14 So when Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson hastily gave him a free transfer to Spain 's Sporting Gijon more than three years ago , you 'd have bet that the battered Irishman would have slipped quietly out of the limelight .
15 My master did not demur and I slipped quietly out of the chamber .
16 He withdrew his hands , smiled at Benjamin and slipped quietly out of the room .
17 She got up and slipped quietly out of the door .
  Next page