Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
| 2 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 3 | Mrs Ardern vowed to keep open Speke 's closure-threatened Pope John Paul II High School even if it meant opting out of the control of the church . |
| 4 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 5 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 6 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 7 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 8 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |