Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb infin] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | The funnel described in this chapter makes the animals come out of the soil or leaves so that you can see what they look like and find out how many there are . |
| 3 | we might see boats fall out of the sky too . |
| 4 | Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls . |
| 5 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 6 | They had seen the knuckles come out of the silken wrapping and the force of it scared their wits back into good manners . |
| 7 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |