Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make goalposts out of white candy sticks and corner flags out of candles . |
| 2 | Outside , doing their best to frighten the cat spitless with their howling , were fifty sledge dogs , each chained to a kennel , well separated to stop their most frequent game , that of tearing lumps out of each other . |
| 3 | Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern . |
| 4 | A crowd had gathered around one of the piers , where Marlon Brando and Lee J. Cobb were tearing chunks out of each other with docker 's hooks . |
| 5 | Only one goal has been conceded in a run of wins that has lifted Swifts out of immediate relegation danger and into the semi-final of the Eastern Floodlight Cup . |
| 6 | Unbalanced for some , but those who know the area will agree that you can not make Moderates out of vertical rock . |
| 7 | Indeed , it was a similar display to the one they produced at White Hart Lane in March when they put Spurs out of this competition in the semi-finals last season . |
| 8 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 9 | Swaps that deal brokers out of small share sales |
| 10 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 11 | The initial idea of making vases out of solid stone was probably a foreign import . |
| 12 | This propensity to seek damages out of all proportion to the alleged negligence must be stopped ; otherwise the time will inevitably come , and soon , when promising young accountants will not be attracted by partnership in accounting firms , as they will not wish to put their personal wealth at risk . |
| 13 | Providing that there was no threat to their members ' jobs , trades unions felt that they had a free hand in wage negotiations , often seeming to pluck numbers out of thin air and try it on with employers . |
| 14 | Often they built things out of the junk in the rooms and Endill became an expert at making submarines out of old bath tubs and washing machines . |
| 15 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 16 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 18 | Absolutely , absolutely , but I mean , I I ship goods out of this country into the continent and further afield , erm , rail is just not an option that I can consider . |