Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 2 | The claim is disputed … but it 's still a good excuse for a ballooning festival.So the lawns of the Chase Hotel were busy this evening as the fist arrivals for the weekend event prepared for their ascent.We took up the offer of a flight with Ian Ashpole , who told us he planned to jump out of the balloon when we reached full height : |
| 3 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 4 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 5 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 6 | By the time that he 'd stepped out of the kitchen and into the main hall , he 'd lost her . |
| 7 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 8 | He 'd fallen out of the tree and the tiger was close somewhere just beyond the clearing . |
| 9 | The reason the trade union movement should support the Maastricht Treaty is it 's the only Treaty that is on offer , there 's nothing else on offer but it 's a reasonable Treaty , it has differences in the U K and the reasons it has differences in the U K is the one Mr Major came back last December tell us what a wonderful opportunity it was for Britain , what a wonderful success it was for Britain that he 'd opted out of the Social Chapter . |
| 10 | that he 'd got out of the creche I think , cos he had n't got it when he went out . |
| 11 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 12 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 13 | Hers said it was by mistake but I know it was n't and he came wandering out of the wood , all black and shaggy like the Beast in the fairy tale in the most peculiar clothes , very ancient , and dreadful wild hair like pictures of the Prophets . ’ |
| 14 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 15 | He seemed to explode out of the chair , pacing to and fro as if he could not be still . |
| 16 | He turned to go out of the room . |
| 17 | He turned to look out of the window . |
| 18 | In the Great Charter he undertook to put out of the forest ‘ at once ’ the districts which he himself had afforested , and the rivers he had placed ‘ in defence ’ . |
| 19 | But he managed to speed out of the line of fire and drove a mile before calling for help . |
| 20 | Fortunately he managed to duck out of the way of a lump of glass as it speared towards his neck . |
| 21 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 22 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 23 | Far away and long ago seemed the world after the War , into which he had emerged out of the army with the feeling that his vote and the new Labour Government would rebuild England . |
| 24 | As he did so , he remembered a line which almost forty years before he had struck out of the poem at Vivien 's insistence . |
| 25 | Vic flicks a switch on his telephone console and summons Shirley , whom he had gestured out of the office while Baxter was talking , to take some letters . |
| 26 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 27 | Turning , she found Fernand at her side , as if he had risen out of the earth . |
| 28 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 29 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 30 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |