Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 3 | In the event , only a smaller group of about 100 delegates led by Armando Cossutta walked out of the final session of the congress , with the declared intention of continuing the Italian communist tradition elsewhere . |
| 4 | Miss Potts came out of the room at this moment , she eyed Gwendoline with dislike . |
| 5 | And with that final attempt to recapture something of his former Manner , Edward Crumwallis shuffled out of the study . |
| 6 | He said Mills reversed slowly , then more quickly , forcing Miss Deeley to jump out of the way . |
| 7 | As Selwyn rummaged around the shed for his tools , Barney Summerville came out of the garage wiping his hands on an oily rag . |
| 8 | IRVINE 's Jim Muir and Hugh Duff , the former Auchinleck man who is now living south of the Border and lining up in England 's colours , won through to the second round of the Midland Bank World Indoor Championship in Preston yesterday as former winners Terry Sullivan and David Bryant tumbled out of the title race . |
| 9 | While I was speaking , Miss J. looked out of the window in a sarcastic manner and when I had finished she said ‘ thank you ’ very politely but with rather a sneering look . |
| 10 | Just after lunch , as she was wriggling into her guide uniform , which had grown somewhat tight , Miss Lodsworth looked out of the window and saw a girl not wearing a hard hat clattering five ponies down the High Street . |
| 11 | When pressed she also said she remembered catching a glimpse of David Parkin going out of the room . |
| 12 | Mrs. Mounce jumped out of the armchair and twinkled away to the door . |
| 13 | Cosmopolitan chief Marcelle d'Argy Smith stormed out of the historic Oxford Union debating chamber after sitting through 90 minutes of bawdy horseplay . |
| 14 | Jack Charlton has given the Swindon winger Tony Galvin permission to pull out of the Republic of Ireland 's World Cup squad for next week 's final qualifier in Malta . |
| 15 | Exley vows : ‘ I 'll be back ’ Amateur By JEFF TODHUNTER ALAN Exley bowed out of the ABA championships in the national quarter finals at Gateshead Leisure Centre because , possibly , he showed his opponent too much respect . |
| 16 | Short was co-driver for the British hope David Llewellin , but on Tuesday their British-prepared Toyota Celica crashed out of the five-day , 2,000-mile event . |
| 17 | Dr Livesey came out of the house in time to see me climbing into the stockade , and my friends welcomed me happily . |
| 18 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 19 | Lara 's 111 not out off 140 balls gave the visitors victory with more than five overs to spare , and sent the South Africans tumbling out of the triangular one-day series , which also features Pakistan . |
| 20 | Sister , Robins , and Dr Jones came out of the latter 's office . |
| 21 | He observed Jane Pargeter come out of the kitchen — the neck of her shirt folded up , her forearms freckled but brown from a recent holiday with the same attention to detail . |
| 22 | A very angry Sergeant Waters jumped out of the driver 's door . |
| 23 | William Darling looked out of the window , unhappily . |
| 24 | Dao Van Lat hurried out of the antechamber by a side door , leaving Joseph and his mother to join the line of departing guests . |
| 25 | Mr Brownlow hurried out of the room , down the stairs and into the coach without another word . |
| 26 | Tears at Halifax , where Hereford 's win meant the Yorkshire side go out of the football league . |
| 27 | AT THE height of last week 's farcical premiership crisis , President Mitterrand slipped out of the Elysee Palace under the lenses and noses of the encamped journalists awaiting his decision , and went shopping . |
| 28 | While Heathcliff was getting his breath back , Mr Edgar walked out of the other kitchen door into the garden . |
| 29 | Piper O'Rourke stepped out of the murk behind them , wearing a concerned expression . |
| 30 | He removed them when he first came since they would not shut because , as old Mr Abbott the gardener explained , ‘ not once but twice Mr Betjeman reversed out of the garage without opening the doors , and when charged with stupidity , made the excuse that on both occasions he was wearing a sou'wester . ’ |