Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were few moments to excite the crowd and the only note of controversy came in the second set when McNeil received a warning for slamming the ball out of court as she trailed 3–1 . |
| 2 | Since her newfound freedom , however , she had decided that she would get as much out of life as she could . |
| 3 | Saint Julien was taking no chances , his acquired Smith & Wesson discreetly out of sight as he allowed them in . |
| 4 | Scott nodded , watching as Hitch scuttled across the road and disappeared out of sight as he began to descend the embankment steps towards the pier . |
| 5 | TOLBY FLICKERED IN and out of sight as he walked along the line of parked cars . |
| 6 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 7 | For this reason the golfball picture of the planet , with regular internal layers and smooth , uniform demarcation zones , has fallen out of favour as it has encouraged what are probably quite wrong estimates of temperatures at the core . |
| 8 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 9 | We use the same principle for getting money out of companies as we do getting products into them . |
| 10 | Pat : ‘ Well , there you are — Springsteen 's authenticity is as much constructed out of signs as anyone . ’ |
| 11 | Claudia , waking with a head that felt as if it were filled with lead , almost fell out of bed as her alarm rang . |
| 12 | She leapt out of bed as he rubbed his head , cursing . |
| 13 | When her breasts were free she teased him with the top half of her peach-coloured bikini , waving it over his head and snatching it out of reach as he stretched up for it . |
| 14 | BRIXTON KNIGHTS have enticed Lyn Tennant out of retirement as they plot the downfall of the English women 's champions , Britannia , writes Mike Spencer . |
| 15 | Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition . |
| 16 | Topaz was slightly out of breath as she reached the marquis , not quite able to believe he was really there . |
| 17 | They could hardly have been more different from the swaggering louts of the Hotel Olympik who would chatter among themselves for ten minutes and then saunter towards one as much out of boredom as anything else . |
| 18 | If you enter the turn at full speed the board will just bounce out of control as you lean back . |
| 19 | She shifted restlessly beneath him , her heart pounding out of control as she registered the powerful interplay of muscle and sinew . |
| 20 | The blood seemed to be pounding in her sleepy head , her heart racing almost out of control as she felt the smooth passage of his finger slipping down her throat , slowly brushing the thin strap of her gown from her shoulder . |
| 21 | Such advice is becoming as offensive , ignorant and out of touch as it was when first uttered by the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) many years ago . |
| 22 | Clearly , whatever system we have , councils will want to squeeze as much money out of payers as they can and they will justify this in the same tired way : preservation of jobs and services . |
| 23 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 24 | THEY 'RE running the director of the FBI out of town as I write . |
| 25 | One can not just dig it out of language as I thought once . ’ |
| 26 | In any case , she 'd probably got as much out of Andrew as she was going to . |
| 27 | Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone . |
| 28 | It 's three miles out of Dunfermline as you leave the town and go towards Bridge . |
| 29 | … the dwindling of the conscious individual personality , the focusing of thoughts and feelings in a common direction , the predominance of the affective side of the mind and of unconscious psychical life , the tendency to the immediate carrying out of intentions as they emerge … . |