Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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1 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
2 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
3 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
4 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
5 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
6 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
7 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
8 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
9 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
10 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
11 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
12 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
13 | Their rooms were next to each other and identical : shabby exercises in spartan comfort , designed to keep you out of the room and in the hotel lounge . |
14 | Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way . |
15 | And Carolyn Dalzell , 18 , claims her landlord has thrown her out of the house blaming her for the fire . |
16 | We want to get it out of the way before it starts escalating . |
17 | No , the only way the Seven could get at The New Hope would be to try to blow it out of the sky from below . |
18 | You want to blow us out of the water ? ’ |
19 | If you want to take them out of the book |
20 | Other countries , including West Germany and Japan , are following , and the UK is a world leader in research , though our country 's usual secrecy has kept it out of the headlines . |
21 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
22 | Bromley was quoted by The Listener in August as saying of Sky : ‘ We intend to shoot them out of the sky . ’ |
23 | I understand it was your own stupidity in refusing to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd got her out of the house . |
24 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
25 | Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked . |
26 | Ever since my father repeatedly threatened to let me out of the car as a child , I have made satisfactory provisions for such an adventure . |
27 | Actually , I 've heard a little about your relationship from my aunt — like the fact that you refused to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd kicked her out of the house . ’ |
28 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
29 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
30 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |