Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 2 | The terrain here was more open , like something out of the Wild West , with deeply eroded crags and ravines . |
| 3 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 4 | Whereas these things were just like anything out of the blue and it 's like all what 's what 's coming is n't it ? |
| 5 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 6 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 7 | Also on Benn 's hit-list is old foe Iran Barkley , beaten in one round by the Dark Destroyer the last time they met . |
| 8 | The incomes of the resident incumbents of Dorney and Taplow were expressed as rents , possibly to draw attention to something out of the ordinary : leases granted by previous absentee parsons had not yet expired . |
| 9 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |