Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said .
2 ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said .
3 He pointed to the university 's successful three-year programme to steer it out of serious financial problems without compulsory redundancies .
4 Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne .
5 They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives .
6 Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn .
7 The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so .
8 He was hauled back to New York and given that column to keep him out of any more mischief . ’
9 Barry might well be back any second to get me out of this . ’
10 Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service .
11 He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes .
12 ‘ Goddess of poetry , healing and smithcraft , if she takes you that way ; and if not , enough saints of the name to see you out of any small predicament .
13 Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut .
14 According to Jenny Cousins , a psychologist and practising psychotherapist , teaching people to think themselves out of negative and erroneous beliefs about themselves is a standard psycho- therapeutic practice .
15 There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class .
16 Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement .
17 He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’
18 Given that the second Tory recession is set to cost 550,000 manufacturing jobs and 100,000 companies and is set to put the United Kingdom at the bottom of the European Community league table on under-investment and employment in 1992 , will the right hon. Gentleman now admit that urgent action is needed to boost employment in Britain to take us out of this situation ?
19 If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts .
20 It has no right to be there and if you will take my advice you will tell Frank Coven to take it out of that window and back to the bank as fast as he can . ’
21 I want you and the company to find some way to get me out of this mess I 've been landed in .
22 Also , the goons will hardly have had time to make anything out of those bits of wood by then .
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