Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 2 | There were reports of other attacks to the north and west , but still no word had come in of Lionan or Mullach , and Murtach 's patrol had not sighted them . |
| 3 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 4 | That car could not have tipped over of itself . |
| 5 | Does n't your outside tap come off of me ? |
| 6 | Aye it were getting pinched off of me cupboard 's outside the door . |
| 7 | Erm It all gets mixed up of course because there 's , there 's there 's erm erm Russia which is seen as a power , you know the reactionary power . |
| 8 | But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ . |
| 9 | And tonight the orchestra , intrigued by the vibrations they had picked up of something unusual happening this season , gave the entrance a full-bodied flourish of emotional sound , a build-up of chord and melody that culminated with Therese , shimmering , a mass of silver and flashing diamonds , swinging her way down to front stage , smiling , radiant , totally in control , moving quickly , gracefully around her stage guests , a wave of her muff to this one , a kiss blown to that . |
| 10 | Tranmere 's form has picked up of late … they could pose a real threat tomorrow … |
| 11 | Protein is bade up of amino acids and forms all our cells — nails , hair , skin , blood , etc . |
| 12 | Fidelma stumped out of the room , deciding she had pressed her luck far enough and Timothy put his cup down , oddly disturbed . |
| 13 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
| 14 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 15 | And she is believed to have banked £10 million since being booted out of Downing Street two years ago . |
| 16 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 17 | And this was also the drug that caused British weightlifters Andrew Saxton and Andrew Davies to be booted out of the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 18 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 19 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 20 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 21 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 22 | ‘ I know what you 're saying , but she was drugged out of her head , Patrick . |
| 23 | However , it is enough to point out that there are similarities between the ‘ overpopulation ’ view and the view that farmers and pastoralists should be educated out of their ignorant , lethargic and traditional ways . |
| 24 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 25 | Collective bargaining institutions and rules can not be expected to function adequately when wrenched out of their original context and implanted elsewhere , since they are closely linked with the structure and organisation of political and social power in their own environment or habitat . |
| 26 | Then she was wrenched out of shadow into heavier shadow still , and realized it was almost too late already . |
| 27 | A yell of surprise was wrenched out of her . |
| 28 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 29 | It 's wrenched out of Paul . |
| 30 | This test highlights the necessity to understand the original context of a belief and make sure that something is not being wrenched out of that to a setting where it does not apply . |