Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb base] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every lunchtime she watched her three male partners in Exeter-based accountancy firm Honey Perriam disappear out of the door and up the road to the local snooker club , while she sat at her desk , nibbling her sandwich . |
| 2 | He observed Jane Pargeter come out of the kitchen — the neck of her shirt folded up , her forearms freckled but brown from a recent holiday with the same attention to detail . |
| 3 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 4 | The views expressed by Julie White and Hilary Patrick leave out of consideration the unfortunate fact that some kinds of serious mental illness may be associated with lack of insight . |
| 5 | For example — and just , as they say , off the top of my own head — I can imagine , even if I ca n't paint , these prototypically Magrittian images : a revolver that fires doves ; a two-humped animal with heads at each end ( a palindromedary , perhaps ) a painting of the Crucifixion that is itself ( the painting I mean ) nailed to a Cross ; an unearthly skyscape in which the four Presidents ' heads from Mount Rushmore emerge out of a billowing bank of clouds . |
| 6 | Companies from across the region have been included in a list of six thousand firms who 'll suffer if the truck makers Leyland Daf go out of business . |