Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 2 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 3 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 4 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 5 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 6 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 7 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 8 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 9 | Carolyn let herself out of the french windows and made her way along the trodden track to her garden , now a dug rectangle of some eight by twelve yards , backing on to the wall of Keswick 's warehouse . |
| 10 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 11 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 12 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 13 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 14 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 15 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 16 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 17 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 18 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 19 | She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 21 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 22 | Pulling herself out of the dazed state into which the woman 's embittered words had thrown her , she tried for a non-committal tone . |
| 23 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 24 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 25 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 26 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 27 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |
| 28 | He is currently in Israel although a leg strain will keep him out of the national side , who play Finland in Helsinki in a World Cup tie tomorrow . |
| 29 | Johnny was immediately made captain , a position he held for nearly five years , and scored on his debut , but even Johnny 's seven goals from the 12 remaining games could not keep us out of the new basement division . |
| 30 | No one in the shipping office must be given the slightest idea that we suspect anything out of the ordinary at all . " |