Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 2 | The Lane must have fallen out of use in this stretch within living memory . |
| 3 | ‘ I found this on the floor — I wondered if it might have fallen out of his pocket . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 5 | Socketed chips which may have eased out of their sockets can be pushed back in with firm pressure applied squarely with the thumb . |
| 6 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |
| 7 | Team Costa Rica could not have won regardless of the parachuting , having lost one team member to injury on the penultimate day . |
| 8 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 9 | They must have dropped out of my bag and slipped behind the cushion . ’ |
| 10 | That car could not have tipped over of itself . |
| 11 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 12 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 13 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 14 | While they might have looked out of place next to the modern heavy metal , they are vying for a lucrative market . |
| 15 | ‘ Riddle might have come here of his own accord . ’ |
| 16 | She would have come across of her own free will . |
| 17 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 18 | Some harsh , agonised sounds must have come out of him . |
| 19 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 20 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 21 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 22 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 23 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 24 | Police hunting a man who raped a woman at Swindon college have widened their search because they believe he may have moved out of town . |
| 25 | ) And , having digested that , any Masons would have shot out of their seats at the beginning of the overture — threefold chords in a knocking rhythm . |
| 26 | come on you no course teachers will pick on him , the only secondary school teacher that John he walked round with him he might have shot out of there |
| 27 | Had Katherine been able to forget the fear her mother instilled in her , she would have wept out of homesickness . |
| 28 | She 'd have done all of this for nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court . |
| 30 | Ruth 's clothes , which she would soon have grown out of , she put into bags for Oxfam . |