Example sentences of "[adv] of [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , she quickly gave up this approach because Gareth kept tugging the mug handle after each drink , spilling lots of ‘ pop ’ over both of them and the floor . |
| 2 | And er and so , explaining to my brother where , or trying to get out of him where the , the customer lived . |
| 3 | ‘ I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over . ’ |
| 4 | In the early days of commercial TV , lots of ads were written as jingles composers such as Johnny Johnson in the UK made a fortune out of them and the best were sung by kids and ad people all over the country . |
| 5 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 6 | But nothing of course would induce me to make a miserable thing out of you and a fool of myself . |
| 7 | Merlyn was a dark column near a window , apparently looking out of it although the torrent obscured the view . |
| 8 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 9 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 10 | Concorde ( linked to five — a hive ) : An old-fashioned beehive with lots of miniature Concordes swarming out of it as the top is lifted off ; |
| 11 | For another year , the Genoese could continue to squat in the wreck of the city , clutching the rights to their ruined , foundering colony ; promoting nothing ; permitting nothing to flourish , either of theirs or the Bastard 's . |
| 12 | A single piper marched ahead of him and a party of riflemen in canvas fatigue uniforms swung along smartly behind him . |
| 13 | With a hiss a door irised open up ahead of him and the car slipped through , coming out into a great sunken pit , in the centre of which stood the squatly rounded shape of the interplanetary craft . |
| 14 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 15 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |
| 16 | He turned his head ; a British police car , one of two ; two black American limousines just ahead of them and an unmarked Company car behind them . |
| 17 | The panic-stricken fish bolt ahead of them until a whole shoal has been herded together and trapped between the birds and the shore . |
| 18 | The long hours of the night stretched ahead of her and the prospect opened a well of loneliness within her . |
| 19 | It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case . |
| 20 | We went on a few yards , then I held back to let her go ahead of me where the path was narrowest . |
| 21 | I gobbled them down — there was a whole day ahead of me and no guarantee of food — and washed them down with water . |
| 22 | Check that you 're not being followed by two people : you may be ‘ sandwiched ’ — with one ahead of you and the other behind . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ the other said , ‘ they always used to say , if you 've got an infestation ahead of you and an infestation behind you , always go for the infestation to your side . ’ |
| 24 | We saw Mount Carmel ahead of us and the town of Haifa sleeping in the morning sun below us … |