Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 2 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 3 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 4 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 5 | A car came speeding out of the fog , mounted the pavement and smashed into them . |
| 6 | A daunting figure came looming out of the night . |
| 7 | And he took the side of Vice President Al Gore against other cabinet members in committing the United States to lowering by 2000 its emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels , a provision the Bush administration had kept out of the global climate treaty signed at Rio . |
| 8 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 9 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 10 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 11 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 12 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 13 | A figure had crawled out of the tent , rumpled , wearing trousers and a sweater ; the man stood up once he was clear of the canvas and stretched , yawning . |
| 14 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 15 | Kylie ran sobbing out of the studios and did what was still the most natural thing in the world for a 20-year-old girl — she ran home to mummy . |
| 16 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 17 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 18 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 19 | Miss Florence seemed to skip out of the storeroom and within a minute skip back , displaying a hat on each hand . |
| 20 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 22 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 23 | Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake . |
| 24 | Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent . |
| 25 | Well , this went on and on until the pile of things Morag and Granny had cleared out of the cupboards was nearly all gone . |
| 26 | And he did not say that , even if they 'd wished to finish the play with his understudy , they could n't , because Alex Household had run out of the theatre immediately after the shooting . |
| 27 | He signed the deal in July 1989 — and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market . |
| 28 | The bottom had fallen out of the city 's property market and skyscrapers offered for sale at ridiculously low prices could find no buyers . |
| 29 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 30 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |