Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 2 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 3 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 4 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 7 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 8 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 10 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 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 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 17 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 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 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 ! " |
| 21 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 24 | We have some friends whose 21-year-old daughter was murdered by a boyfriend who threw her out of a third-storey window . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Better , fit a true mains switch ( e.g. a cord switch on the primary side of the transformer ) and hope that people will use it instead of the on-off switch on the radio . |
| 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 | ‘ I get them out of the public library . ’ |