Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 2 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 3 | There were newspaper reporters standing in the lane where he had lived , waiting all day for someone to come out of the house . |
| 4 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 5 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |
| 6 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 7 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 8 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 9 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 10 | It 's a good idea of yours to come out of the Rolls Royce while the going 's good . |
| 11 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 12 | The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it . |
| 13 | If you are worried about this problem then it is worth knowing that the radiation decreases in strength very rapidly with distance and most of it comes out of the back of the monitor . |
| 14 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 15 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 16 | Revealingly , they often speak of themselves coming out of the ‘ LISP community ’ . |
| 17 | I think of myself rushing out of the house in North Oxford , or the quiet residential streets beyond the University Library in Cambridge , snatching my ancient portable typewriter off my desk as I go , with the voices of boorish boys shouting ‘ Mum ! |
| 18 | As the crowd of us came out of the car , he leaned backwards over Mr Quigley 's fence and spat , slowly and deliberately , into the geraniums . |
| 19 | Be too sordid for both of us to drink out of the bottle . ’ |
| 20 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 21 | " Once in a while someone like me jumps out of the woodwork and wins . |
| 22 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 23 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 24 | Once we 'd found this little gem — and other setup options — we managed to coax a wonderfully fast high resolution screen upon which to work out of the system . |
| 25 | Unfortunately there was so little height in which to pull out of the dive , and the aircraft was going so fast , that gross overloading of the wing structure was absolutely inevitable . |
| 26 | Once , upon her getting out of the car , they manoeuvred the vehicle so as to trap the field-worker to prevent her accompanying them . |
| 27 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 28 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 29 | In his professed concern for Banquo 's welfare ( III.i.11–38 ) , as in his urging on of the murderers ( III.i.73–139 ) , Macbeth displayed some of his earlier resource in hypocrisy , although the scene with the murderers is laboured , I believe deliberately , to show how energy and invention are gradually deserting him . |
| 30 | I ca n't think of any other reason for him to walk out of the dinner he was supposed to be at . |