Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 2 | The garrison conjectured that the sepoys ' powder had been soaked by the downpour … there was even wild talk of breaking out of the enclave and escaping to safety . |
| 3 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 4 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that because of his action in opting out of the social charter , Great Britain will be the only country in Europe that will deny its people the legal right to paid holidays ? |
| 5 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |
| 6 | Destabilisation of the German economy could kill off Europe 's hope of getting out of the recession . |
| 7 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 8 | The CMR applies to every contract for the carriage of goods by road in vehicles for reward , when the place of taking over of the goods and the place of delivery , as specified in the contract , are situated in two different countries , of which at least one is a contracting country , irrespective of the place of residence and the nationality of the parties . |
| 9 | Thanks to records above all we are no longer in danger of forgetting such joyous Purcell inspirations as this , pieces that have always been in danger of dropping out of the repertory simply for being ‘ occasional music . ’ |
| 10 | They are thought to have an option on Walker , but it is unlikely that the relegation-haunted Midlands club will succeed in tempting him back if they are in danger of dropping out of the Premier League . |
| 11 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 12 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 13 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 14 | She accepts that she then was confused , she did n't know what to do erm she did n't think there was any point in getting out of the car which is what sh she should of done , she should of tried to make some enquiries about the child er , but she er , she looked around shrugged her shoulders and and then carried on her journey because she did n't think there was anything else she could do about it . |
| 15 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 16 | He admitted his hit factory had stagemanaged much of her career , using the age-old ploy of staying ahead of the game . |
| 17 | Take her chance on slipping out of the door into the street and away . |
| 18 | Finally , in the week that our nation , while stifling under the weight of depression , looked to the Chancellor and his Budget for hope in crawling out of the pit of fiscal horror and penury , it was reported that : |
| 19 | Black & Decker , the tool manufacturer , followed this course in expanding out of the USA . |
| 20 | And , casting an eye towards the world championships in August , Backley insisted that if the injury hung around he would have no hesitation in pulling out of the year 's big event in Stuttgart to prevent further damage . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a nightmare , ’ a survivor told Dutch television after crawling out of the mangled wreckage . |
| 22 | He missed Kilkenny 's All Ireland semi-final win over Antrim last month after limping out of the Leinster final replay victory over Wexford . |
| 23 | He missed Kilkenny 's All Ireland semi-final win over Antrim last month after limping out of the Leinster final replay victory over Wexford . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin , who went to ground after storming out of the Congress of People 's Deputies on Friday , re-emerged on Tuesday with an appeal to the world 's richest nations for extra aid before it was too late . |
| 25 | The procedure should copy any output files produced by these activities into a working area for the user , to which he or she will then have owner access after breaking out of the Captive environment . |
| 26 | As a result he early on developed the habit of staying out of the house as much as possible . |
| 27 | The establishment of hospices is a genuine example of moving out of the margins and into the city of the world ( Du Boulay 1984 ) . |
| 28 | It was a perfect example of jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire . |
| 29 | What he did n't say , until he published his autobiography last year , was that he was also a high school drop-out who 'd been a heroin addict , a splendid example of rising out of the rot of the inner city . |
| 30 | Investors have criticised last week 's fiscal package and interest rate cut as too little too late and voted with their feet for most of the week by selling out of the market . |