Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 2 | After six o'clock , when the cheap rate had started , Karen King let herself out of the side door of Aunt Jane 's bungalow and walked the quarter of a mile to the public call box . |
| 3 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 4 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 5 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 6 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |
| 7 | The water start uses the force of the wind to pull you out of the water and , when performed properly , is a faster and more efficient means of starting on all types of board . |
| 8 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 9 | I remember paramedics getting her out of the car , but I could not get out of my seat because my legs were trapped under the dashboard . |
| 10 | Corbett followed him out of the house . |
| 11 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 12 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 13 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 14 | And although Hick hit him out of the attack briefly , producing a second cameo of the series which included an extraordinary one-handed straight six , Patel returned downwind to sneak one through before the Zimbabwean could reach a maiden Test half-century . |
| 15 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 16 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 17 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 18 | A battleground of historic events and a jungle of eyes watching him out of the gloom , bright eyes and eyes dulled from misuse , flaring nostrils and faded plumage and gaping jaws and once-golden beaks . |
| 19 | Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face . |
| 20 | ‘ Beacause if you do n't , I 'll ask Josh to throw you out of the cast — and somehow I do n't think you 'd enjoy that , my little prima donna . |
| 21 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 22 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 23 | Although Mark 's expert navigation round the lesser-known hedegrows of Hampshire got us out of the bumper-to-bumper mess , I almost regretted leaving cos I expect there was a huge party somewhere on the middle of the M3 ( ‘ let's all have a disco ’ , etc . ) |
| 24 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 25 | Juliet and Tunney helped her out of the tank . |
| 26 | 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 ! " |
| 27 | All sociologists whose work takes them out of the library and brings them into contact with living beings are certain to use the interview in their work . |
| 28 | Chopra saw it out of the corner of his eye . |
| 29 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |
| 30 | Burnley put them out of the Youth Cup on 14.12.93 . |