Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 2 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 3 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 4 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 6 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 're going out of the frying-pan into the fire ? ’ |
| 8 | Always tell her when you 're going out of the room and , when she can understand , that you 'll be back soon . |
| 9 | You 're getting out of the street anyway are n't you ? |
| 10 | And although they 're facing out of the wind now , you ought to know that this is n't the usual wind we get here . |
| 11 | ‘ I take it we 're opting out of the crime business ? ’ |
| 12 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 13 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 14 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 15 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 16 | However the players are getting out of the losing habit . |
| 17 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 18 | Women are crawling out of the woodwork but they are duplicitous and wizened , swamp people and ratbags , and they can blacken and turn leathery before I will condescend to them . |
| 19 | I am genuinely happy that South Africa are coming out of the cold and I see in their choice of countries some kind of divine justice . |
| 20 | That in itself is a sign that we are coming out of the recession . |
| 21 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 22 | All the students , even those who have been staring out of the window , react to this . |
| 23 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 24 | And I 'll tell you what the problem is about the Trusts , and I 'll explain why they are opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 25 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 26 | In one of the explicit love notes Fiona wrote : I 'm gazing out of the circular window in my office thinking of us . |
| 27 | Marry Doreen and you 'll be stepping out of the frying pan into the fire , as the saying goes . ’ |
| 28 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 29 | If mirth it was : she heard these sad wails and thought , I 'm laughing out of the wrong side of my mouth … |
| 30 | The front half of a fox , paws and all , its rear end replaced by a shield-shaped slab of polished wood , appeared to be leaping out of the wall just below the picture rail , in the manner of a circus dog emerging from a paper hoop . |