Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 .
2 Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves .
3 Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances .
4 It arose out of the publication in the USA of Spycatcher , in which the author , Peter Wright , claimed that MI5 had sometimes acted unlawfully .
5 I mean , there was certainly an accident element in , in the , in the physical discovery of the manuscripts , but also it arose out of the historian asking questions , out of the interest that he was wanting to explore .
6 And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak .
7 Like a chameleon , it moved out of the aisle between machines , then stopped , and became utterly motionless .
8 I HAVE been a patient in a Trust hospital since before it moved out of the NHS in May , and I 've witnessed what that means .
9 The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me .
10 In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network .
11 Praxsys founders include engineering vice president , Bob Van Dette , who brought a hand-picked development team over with him from Phoenix Technologies when it bombed out of the emulation business two years ago .
12 It came out of the blue , before he knew he was famous .
13 Many details , such as the reproduction of type-script and the printing of a page askew as if that was how it came out of the type-writer , suggest the fiction that the novel is a draft , a preliminary version , but of course the pages are printed and therefore fixed .
14 ‘ So it came out of the meteorite — years ago , ’ wondered Jack .
15 Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them .
16 ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue .
17 It came out of the blue .
18 Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould .
19 The path widened and flattened as it came out of the Grove and she caught Nick 's hand to make him run faster .
20 The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it .
21 It is known as the fair-haired boy ; yellow paint still faintly visible on the hair was much more strongly apparent when it came out of the earth .
22 And I think it came out of the print room .
23 ‘ That 's the awful thing , it came out of the blue .
24 The ratings for the drama starring Sean Bean as Mucky Mellors and Joely Richardson as Lady C. have soared , electricity bosses report a surge in power when the nation tunes in and people who have viewed their video recorder with fear and suspicion since the day it came out of the polystyrene box have discovered the freeze frame feature overnight .
25 Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference .
26 For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money .
27 After the cover had popped off on 31 January , the infrared detectors recorded their first observation : a fluctuating signal due to the receding cover as it spiralled out of the telescope 's view .
28 It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath .
29 It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs .
30 The occasional jeep was still passing by with its dead or wounded aboard , raising a cloud of dust as it turned out of the village and sped down the slight hill toward the Orne bridges .
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