Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 4 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 5 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 7 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 8 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 9 | Perhaps he 'd just slipped out of her , and located her anus by mistake . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was a desert island room , a medieval castle , a railway Pullman carriage , a dungeon , a school classroom , and a hospital ward for those who 'd never grown out of playing doctors and nurses . |
| 12 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 13 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 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 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 20 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 21 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 22 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 23 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 26 | ‘ She said Sunnie had finally run out of steam , ’ said Mr Sadler . |
| 27 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 28 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 29 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 30 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |