Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 2 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 3 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ OK , here we are , ’ Sadat says unnecessarily , and pulls his bag off the back seat and gets out of the car . |
| 5 | Charles rose from his seat and walked out of the dressing room . |
| 6 | The very sight of the sign at the head of the platform , shabby and tourist and third class though it was compared with that of the Golden Arrow at the other end of the station , was enough to raise her to a state she had never reached before , and as the train moved south , she sat in her seat and stared out of the window as though in a trance . |
| 7 | She slammed the coffee-mug on to the table , put her hand to her mouth and rushed out of the room , taking the stairs two at a time . |
| 8 | Coffin took his toothpaste and walked out of the shop |
| 9 | She put it in to gear and eased out of the space , willing herself not to rush , not to panic . |
| 10 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 11 | I must collect my gear and check out of the hotel … |
| 12 | A short time later Betty stopped her scrubbing and looked out of the kitchen window . |
| 13 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 14 | Luckily he was sitting in a grandfather chair with sturdy arms which would prevent his falling , so I removed the soup bowl , turned his head on one side and rushed out of the front door , picking up our ‘ frog horn ’ on the way . |
| 15 | Bob drew the curtain to one side and looked out of the window . |
| 16 | Let us now leave the Great Russians of the Kursk guberniia and move out of the hills to the south of Nikol'skaia volost' . |
| 17 | Finally , the pilot centralises the rudder and eases out of the dive . |
| 18 | The maid gave a knowing little nod and backed out of the door with a smile on her face . |
| 19 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 20 | He walked back down to the green and waited out of the wind on the churchyard side . |
| 21 | Whitlock removed the keys from the ignition and got out of the car . |
| 22 | And then , right in the middle of the Lord 's Prayer , she leapt up and grabbed her bottom and rushed out of the room . ’ |
| 23 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 24 | Michael is just becoming interested in this last point when , for no discernible reason , the signing student becomes deeply agitated , screams abuse and storms out of the room . |
| 25 | With that he dropped the now empty covers of the book into the basket and marched out of the room , leaving the telly blaring . |
| 26 | Gebrec shrugged , climbed aboard , started the engine and drove out of the yard . |
| 27 | When they passed out of sight , he started his engine and backed out of the parking place . |
| 28 | Jack leant back in his chair , put his feet on the desk and stared out of the window . |
| 29 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 30 | Swire Sugden looked at his watch and glanced out of the window as if he was expecting something . |