Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization .
2 In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits .
3 After all , you 've already made a dollar out of me , and you did n't abscond with that . ’
4 The man who did must have just got a kick out of it .
5 I 've just pulled a man out of the river , two hundred yards or so upstream .
6 And someone had just stubbed a cigarette out in Niki 's cake .
7 ‘ The French have just put a painting up outside our room . ’
8 But , that just means the levels of insurance , as a risk , ah , you know , and we 've just put a rate in to , to represent the , the levels of insurance because we charge you more if we insure you for more then .
9 Why had n't they just put a notice up on the screen half through the scene she was shooting when she died , saying this has to stop somewhere ?
10 For this reason it has always enjoyed a notability out of all relation to its size .
11 Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade .
12 Have you still got a hair in from your
13 Martin sat down opposite and quickly flattened a book out in front of him .
14 The Smiths , who had always taken a leaf out of Factory 's books by designing their visual imagery behind heavy subtlety , now showed a deliberately provocative front .
15 It 's claimed , perhaps unsurprisingly , that the Young Pretender also spent a night out on one of the three , Sgurr Thuilm .
16 Nathan helped me to my feet and very cautiously picked a way up through the boulders and small crags towards the road .
17 It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured .
18 The all-powerful ICC even made a balls up of it by refusing to clear the tourists when asked to do so .
19 Two defenders and he 's still got the ball and almost got a corner out of it .
20 I 've never got a plot out of a conversation , but I get the way people talk . ’
21 Well , well , well you 've finally done it ; you 've actually forced a letter out of me .
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