Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he fallen out of an aircraft on its way from New York to Tripoli ? |
| 2 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 3 | Whatever else he does , Sandy Lyle will be remembered for the shot he played out of a bunker on the 18th in 1988 -150 yards to the pin . |
| 4 | His face bearing the ruby-red signature of four sets of young Mambo princess lips , Antonio Banderas grins sheepishly as he stumbles out of a Beverly Hills hotel bedroom . |
| 5 | He came out of a side door , clutching a carry-out . |
| 6 | He came out of a restaurant and stood waiting . |
| 7 | He came out of a restaurant , his bags bobbing on his arm as usual , and spoke to two men in a darkened doorway . |
| 8 | He climbed out of a ground floor window at the rear , then left the park at the point where the wall is lowest , avoiding our man at the gate . |
| 9 | He ducked out of a back door and Emily heard the sound of his boots ringing on the cobbles . |
| 10 | He streaked out of a thin patch and saw the aircraft bigger now and shinier , curling around in a wide arc to start landing . |
| 11 | somebody else to come and apparently he escaped out of a prison somewhere , she 's |
| 12 | Meanwhile , he pulled out of a grilling by Euro MPs today — pleading pressure of work . |
| 13 | Reg , who works for SSL , the platform 's services contractor , realised almost £1 a foot when he leapt out of a Cessna plane from 2500 feet above the ground at Navenby airfield , Lincolnshire . |
| 14 | And Lexandro 's spirit swelled , as he conceived hazily of an initiation rite far beyond that of any Necromundan gang , and infinitely more potent . |
| 15 | At Amsterdam he talked out of a vast tradition which otherwise was not very articulate at the meeting . |
| 16 | He took out of a thick envelope a sheet of thick paper . |
| 17 | He thought only of a water pipe , a narrow metal pipe that carried water away from the compound and under the wire and the high wooden fence and on towards the two-storey barracks and the kitchens and dormitories of the guards . |
| 18 | His Paisley pattern shirt did n't go too well with the greying Marks & Spencer pullover he wore instead of a jacket , and he knew his fingernails were dirty . |
| 19 | He tells also of a lady at a dance whose partner thought she had dropped her pearls only to find , much to his consternation and her confusion , that they were the ubiquitous globules of mercury . |
| 20 | He says all they know is that he fell out of a window at a party . |
| 21 | Record of the Year and Song of the Year were awarded for Tears in Heaven , which Clapton wrote as a tribute to his young son , Conor , who died two years ago when he fell out of a window of the singer 's 53rd-floor Manhattan apartment . |
| 22 | He died suddenly of a heart attack in St Charles Hospital , Kensington , 3 November 1964 . |
| 23 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 24 | Mr Wright , a widower with one son and two grandchildren , was making his first operational parachute drop when he bailed out of an aircraft over Arnhem in September 1944 . |
| 25 | Physical contact of a different nature was employed by another member of staff when during a break period he enquired disarmingly of a pupil whether he 'd ever seen an ‘ Irish whip ’ . |
| 26 | He spoke vaguely of a new opportunity for reconciliation between aborigines and other Australians . |
| 27 | He wrote also of an old man who had supposedly been snowed in , in pitch darkness , inside his stone hut , for thirty hours . |
| 28 | Thomas 's confrère Roger Bacon [ q.v. ] was probably referring to him when he wrote scornfully of a colleague who had presumed to teach philosophy without having read it ( Opus Minus , ed . |
| 29 | Mr Ballantyne said that he ran out of a drug used to control Mr Stockton 's epileptic fits . |