Example sentences of "a [noun] come [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s .
2 Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual .
3 A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down .
4 After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands .
5 A waiter came out of the car-park of the Queen Victoria Hotel .
6 The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables .
7 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
8 A Yek in the long coat of a merchant came out of the door of the house .
9 Presently a woman came out of the door at the side of the house and walked towards them .
10 The doors sighed and closed with tender regret , and the whole train growled and shook itself like a dog coming out of the sea .
11 He sat , and at once a page came out of the shadows with a tray which contained cups and a flask of wine .
12 A man came out of the haze and stood alongside looking at me .
13 Ruth rang the bell at the gate and a man came out of the lodge to attend to her .
14 A man came out of the pantry beyond , a small man with a sharp clever face , in an apron and gaiters .
15 Then he moved aside , and a man came out of the darkness of the shop , hesitated for a fraction of a second and then turned away into the bazaar .
16 A man comes out of the theatre and calls ‘ Taxi ! ’ to a car that is going by .
17 A voice came out of the flames : ‘ Neil Kinnock is a man of integrity and consistency , a man who will never betray his principles . ’
18 Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way .
19 She watched through a crack and at last a nurse came out of the tiny office and went to the lift .
20 A couple came out of the Moebius Strip , a yellow woman in video shades and a black one in a tubecoat , basilisk teeth plaited into her hair .
21 A creak comes out of the receiver , and I know they 're opening the door .
22 A servant came out of the side gate and returned later , but that was all .
23 Trevino is all teed-up and in the process of taking his club back when a guy comes out of the crowd in front of him with a camera on his shoulder and walks right across the fairway .
24 The guides were hot and thirsty , but as Miss Lodsworth went to the kitchen tap for water to fill up the jugs of concentrated lemon squash , only a trickle came out of the tap .
25 In Lamb , above , the accused pulled the trigger of a gun and killed his best friend , but there was no assault because both did not expect a bullet to come out of the barrel .
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