Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 2 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 3 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 4 | Kylie ran sobbing out of the studios and did what was still the most natural thing in the world for a 20-year-old girl — she ran home to mummy . |
| 5 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 6 | Miss Florence seemed to skip out of the storeroom and within a minute skip back , displaying a hat on each hand . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 8 | Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent . |
| 9 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 10 | Unwillingly she marshalled them into order , beginning with the moment when she and Stephen had stepped out of the French windows , apprehensive because Timothy Gedge was in the garden . |
| 11 | The Argie came flying out of the tank , running from the British heroine . |
| 12 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | Lee had slipped out of the room . |
| 14 | Once Richards had to dive out of the way as Tribe , twisting and stretching in his straps lurched across the formation . |
| 15 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 16 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 17 | Billy made to get out of the cab but the policeman held up his hand . |
| 18 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 19 | Both the driver , William McPhee , who also owns the van , and his assistant Caroline Campbell managed to clamber out of the burning vehicle without injury . |
| 20 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 21 | Ashamed , confused , uncertain of her own identity , Rosie O'Dell had walked out of the house and never returned . |
| 22 | Sophie went to look out of the window . |
| 23 | Athelstan went to gaze out of the window , staring absentmindedly at the great tocsin bell which hung so silently on its icy rope above the snow-covered green . |
| 24 | Before a bemused Cranston could reply , Athelstan had slipped out of the room , walking gingerly across the noisy Nightingale Gallery , down the stairs and out into Cheapside . |
| 25 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 26 | And Manyara came rushing out of the temple . |
| 27 | Durkin had struggled out of the car helpless with laughter , delighted with all the excitement he was causing . |
| 28 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 29 | This is immediately expanded to " the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan " — again , a point of immediate situational relevance , but involving a step from the present into the recent past . |
| 30 | Miss Merchiston had wandered out of the room , calling out again . |