Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of their [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Smashed out of their bloody boxes as usual . ’ |
| 3 | In contrast , in the European-style cities of east and central Africa such as Nairobi , Lusaka and Harare , the informals have frequently been hounded out of their preferred locations . |
| 4 | Many of the incomers in resident private housing are still occupationally mobile : ( they are still mostly young ) : many have moved out of their adoptive communities , usually with a sizeable profit , after selling their houses . |
| 5 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 6 | The move was designed to protect home riders who , it was claimed , were being balloted out of their own events by foreigners . |
| 7 | Women from along the street came out of their front doors too . |
| 8 | These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion . |
| 9 | People could then ‘ cash ’ their vouchers at any school of their choice , and they could top them up by paying out of their own pockets for a more expensive school . |
| 10 | Certain lizards take the spiky defence trend a major step further , with long , sharp spines growing out of their scaly skins . |
| 11 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 12 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 13 | A notorious critic of Hollywood , he justified taking the job by declaring he would break the stranglehold of the agents , who tied the studios up with pre-wrapped packages made up of their own clients : stars , writers and directors . |
| 14 | THE STONE ROSES/SILVERTONE court case kicked off in earnest last week , when a legal representative for the label suggested that the Manchester four-piece band acted childishly in their attempt to bow out of their contractual obligations . |
| 15 | The 3rd Alton are currently also working on another appeal , born out of their strong links with scouts in St. Petersburg , Russia . |
| 16 | Some older people dread the idea of moving out of their own homes , while others would enjoy being near or actually living with their relatives . |
| 17 | Now those same partners gave their blessing to the idea of the two solicitors moving out of their own offices , and setting up a temporary Law Centre where everyone involved could get together and fight for the return of the children ; they would fight for justice , and ultimately a judicial inquiry . |
| 18 | She would n't be seeing any dead women getting out of their rocking chairs . |
| 19 | If somebody slipped a little cache of something into his plonk , they were probably irritated out of their tiny minds . ’ |
| 20 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 21 | There are no cars in Venice — you 'll often see the locals coming out of their front doors and leaping into the boats tied up outside — and everything must be delivered by water . |
| 22 | These men — and overwhelmingly they were men — came from large , poor families , moved from job to job in catering and manual work and were unable to save out of their meagre earnings . |
| 23 | The idea grew out of their weekly meetings and from the desire to inform younger West Indians about their heritage . |
| 24 | Pepper , Cissy , Dorothy , who played the comic char , the Stage Manager Bob , his Assistant and callboy Johnny , all popped out of their various rooms like gophers from their burrows to gather and shout . |
| 25 | The arrival of a female at the lek drives the males into a frenzy of display , with much showing off of their remarkable crests . |
| 26 | Common sense had already told her they had to get out of their sodden clothes , but , for an unexpected instant , the sight of fitzAlan half naked , the firelight burnishing tanned skin over strong muscle and bone , had made her suddenly , acutely , aware of the differences between them . |
| 27 | He dreamed of a society where there would be no capitalist bosses ; no unemployment ; with food ; housing and medical services for all ; where old women would not be thrown out of their lifelong homes to make way for richer tenants and children would never go hungry . |
| 28 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 29 | AS THE slump bites harder more and more families , who can not afford huge mortgage repayments , are being forced out of their own homes into the arms of landlords . |
| 30 | ‘ If they close , 60 vulnerable people will be forced out of their own homes and away from their friends ’ , Bayley says . |