Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 2 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 3 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 4 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 5 | I was n't watched closely ; I had opted out of the ( sexual ) competition with my sisters ; and some of my eccentricities were tolerated on the grounds that my presence in the house was only temporary and , in the long run , of little relevance to its essential life . |
| 6 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 7 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
| 8 | Since I 've done most of the really sexy west-coast mountains it 's time to start exploring the interior of the Cairngorm range , especially now I 've overcome my abhorrence of the ski-77tows and scone consumers . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done most of the things you are suggesting . |
| 10 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
| 11 | I 've got out of the way , I 'm trying to do my accounts , I ca n't understand this new money can you ? |
| 12 | I 've got out of the habit . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 14 | Someone had backed out of a marriage and family honour had been damaged . |
| 15 | I have warned before of the dangers of the celebrity publisher interview , and I 'm glad to seen that someone else was listening . |
| 16 | I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology . |
| 17 | The fairest statement that I have seen recently of the prospects of recovery was the one in the Greenwell Montagu Recovery Watch bulletin a few days ago . |
| 18 | .. I have changed out of the paternal democracy into a conservatism that believes in Caesar , Pope and the fierce God of Battles — almost . ’ |
| 19 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 20 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 21 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 22 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 23 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 24 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 25 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 26 | Changes of emphasis within art education , which have arisen out of a realization that the skills of response and appreciation do not necessarily result from the practice of art , have led to explorations into the nature of aesthetic experience , enquiries into its patterns of development and attempts to assess the skills and achievements possible within this area ( APU , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | These social movements express new forms of social struggle , which have arisen out of the relative failure of other sectors of society to make significant changes and out of changing socio-economic conditions . |
| 28 | Dust invariably contains pathogens which have settled out of the atmosphere . |
| 29 | But it is Damon , fourth from the top , who has vaulted ahead of the others , thanks to the cutting-edge characters he developed for Keenan 's show : an angry circus clown , a flamboyant film reviewer , and , riskiest of all , Handiman , ah , uh , differently abled super-hero . |
| 30 | Make a Fel test for the character who has done most of the talking . |