Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 2 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 3 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 4 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 5 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 6 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 7 | By comparison with the immense popularity of contemporary feminist fiction , it seems that feminist art has n't broken out of the tine art ‘ ghetto ’ . |
| 8 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 9 | Leaks at compression joints ( page 23 ) can usually be cured by tightening the nuts ( make sure the pipe has n't pulled out of the sealing ring ) ; curing a leak in soldered capillary joints and solvent-welded joints in plastic pipes is more difficult and usually involves draining and remaking the joint ( pages 22 and 28 ) . |
| 10 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 11 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 12 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I 've rather got out of the habit of talking to people . ’ |
| 15 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 16 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 17 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 18 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 19 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 20 | ( Miles had already spoken gloomily of the inevitable price rises which the Middle East situation must precipitate . |
| 21 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 22 | She hoped Veronica Puddephat had not moved out of the Red House after the separation . |
| 23 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 24 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 25 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 26 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 27 | ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs . |
| 28 | So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ? |
| 29 | Well they 've just come out of the chip pan |
| 30 | Well I 've just come out of the debate which has just finished on the Palestine and Israel situation and er we passed the voting paper which will become policy for the party , calling for er a non-violent solution recognising the P L O and urging the U N to facilitate negotiations between Israeli government and the P L O. |