Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 2 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 3 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 4 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 5 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 6 | But although she tried to speak , actually tried to form words and force them out of her mouth , no words came . |
| 7 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 8 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 9 | She drained her coffee , got her bag out of her locker and followed him out of the door . |
| 10 | She forgot that she had decided that she did not love Johnny and wanted him out of her life . |
| 11 | There is still , I am sure , of specific areas and you have to highlight those areas and get them out of the way . |
| 12 | When the radiator is empty , undo the other coupling and stuff tissue paper or rag into the radiator inlets , to stop sludge dripping out as you lift the radiator off its brackets and carry it out of the house . |
| 13 | He rattled a huge ring of keys and let me out of the cell . |
| 14 | B has to try to find the keys and get them out of the circle before being hit by A. If the Keeper hits B s/he wins . |
| 15 | Roman tugged Claudia to her feet and rushed her out of the garden before the coach doors had time to open . |
| 16 | Halfway through the night , they decided they needed to know , went out on to the landing , groped around but in desperation had to go back to their room , pee in their shoes and empty them out of the window ! |
| 17 | In those times , a poet could descend on you with all his retinue and eat you out of house and home . |
| 18 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 19 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
| 20 | In 1872 , Thomas Paterson , another jet worker , came home very drunk , got hold of his wife 's hair and pulled her out of bed . |
| 21 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 22 | It makes a change and gets you out of the house . ’ |
| 23 | I caught it , held it in my fingers and put it out of the window . |
| 24 | There is no genie to snap its fingers and whiplash me out of this world I am living in . |
| 25 | When he 's here I start fights and drive him out of the house . |
| 26 | No doubt you drag Señor Mitchell about with you to carry your belongings and get you out of scrapes . |
| 27 | Atkinson said : ‘ We tried to forget about what happened at Coventry and put it out of our minds as quickly as we could . |
| 28 | Melissa hastily pushed the book back into the crumpled wrapping and put it out of sight , then held out her hand . |
| 29 | It was like toys : when you brought them home from the shop and got them out of the box they were never quite the same . |
| 30 | There are some tantalising references to a defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " , notably in the case of Webb v Times Publishing Co : Donald Hume murdered Stanley Setty , cut up his body and threw it out of an aircraft over the Essex marshes . |