Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 2 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 3 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 4 | Buildings seemed to rise out of the desert . |
| 5 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 6 | There was another clink , and gold coins began to drop out of the hem of the wizard 's robe . |
| 7 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 8 | The rings had spilled out of the tin and lay in the tufty bits of grass like slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 9 | But the quality of the housing then further declined and indigenous families tended to move out of the area . |
| 10 | All the birds flew screeching out of the trees as the shots echoed over the wasteland . |
| 11 | By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away . |
| 12 | This weekend doctors will receive the results of a poll for the BMA showing 73 per cent of GPs wanted to opt out of the commitment . |
| 13 | Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship . |
| 14 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 15 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 16 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |
| 17 | Two farm hands came rushing out of the barn and ran across the field to the motionless figure . |
| 18 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 19 | So that when want numbers of non-directed peasants began to spill out of the disaster areas in the early summer of 1921 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered its guberniia counterparts to put a stop to migration ‘ since the flight of the peasants … will ruin entirely our economic life ’ . |
| 20 | The children began filing out of the classroom . |
| 21 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
| 22 | As she passed Veronica 's house , she noticed that one of the men had got out of the green Maestro and was making his way round the back of the building . |
| 23 | The fact that Fields had arrived out of the blue , managed to sell Branson the basic idea of an airline and walked away six months later on his way to a million pounds … that was evidence of a particular sort of skill which Branson could appreciate . |
| 24 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 25 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 26 | Students began to spill out of the building , others to stream in . |
| 27 | In the early 1970s , three-quarters of married women chose to opt out of the national insurance scheme . |
| 28 | If the two papers had appeared out of the blue , with no preparation of the scientific ground , they would surely have made an enormous impact both among astronomers and in the wider world . |
| 29 | Two nomes had come out of the grass . |
| 30 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |