Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the jar the cream was whipped up , light as a soufflé , and smelled delicately of mimosa . |
| 2 | These should not be confused with pails which are cylindrical , handled containers made entirely of metal , mostly imported into England ( Richards 1986 ) . |
| 3 | The heart of the park will feature models made entirely of Lego bricks depicting scenes and world famous architectural sites . |
| 4 | Each one of us was given a chess board complete with chess men made entirely of sweetmeats . |
| 5 | But there are older , more cherished items , too , like a black jacket made entirely of feathers , and a fake fur coat bought on holiday in Tenerife . |
| 6 | A day spent finding China 's Number One sea shell carving factory , brought forth the awesome sight of the Great Wall made entirely of shells . |
| 7 | The Germanic cavalry often had morning stars made entirely of iron . |
| 8 | Keys made entirely of iron were also in everyday use . |
| 9 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 10 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 11 | The hospital cost alone of hip fractures in England and Wales was £128 million in 1985 . |
| 12 | Rare two point eight manual option , service history full service history , over two thousand pound bills , gleaming metallic gold , luxury velvet interior , power steering , tilt slide centre , tinted electric windows remote mirrors , four headrests , alloys etc. , tax , M O T , beautiful car , maintained regardless of cost eight hundred and ninety five quid . |
| 13 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 14 | It tasted unequivocally of bleach . |
| 15 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 16 | It is a three-dimensional , fibrous structure , built up of protein blocks which the tanning process makes resistant to putrefaction and softens to a degree that suits the end use . |
| 17 | El Shadday : Shadday probably means " mountain " , used symbolically of changelessness and enduring strength , contrasted to the helplessness of man . |
| 18 | I mean the the caring feeling oozed out of Ni Bevan . |
| 19 | Virtue oozed out of Stitch . |
| 20 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 21 | She still felt full of inner disquiet as the car zigzagged out of town and started to wind its way up to her host 's home . |
| 22 | Later , two black bullet-proof Jaguar motor cars headed out of South London . |
| 23 | Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route . |
| 24 | I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running . |
| 25 | With an almost childlike whoop of delight she bounded out of bed , quickly stifling the sound as she caught sight of her alarm clock . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We went up a narrow street where children peered out of doorways . |
| 28 | The dock cost upwards of £350,000 to build and included a drydock cut into the west end of the centre jetty measuring 91.44 metres in length by 12.2 metres in width . |
| 29 | But the judge was prepared to accept that due to extreme financial problems Mrs Fitchew behaved out of character . |
| 30 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |