Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was staring at the glove box now , he was too low to see out of the window . |
| 2 | In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 4 | The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " . |
| 5 | We need to do this to clear out of the way , before we go any further into the study of social policy , a most misleading and widespread false assumption about the character of our subject . |
| 6 | Careful to stay out of the way . |
| 7 | Whatever their riders might desire , those English mounts broke , reared , panicked , cannoned into one another to get out of the way , and doing so caused utter confusion and collapse amongst the enemy . |
| 8 | Nomes had to scramble over one another to get out of the way when one of the floorboards in the manager 's office was pulled up . |
| 9 | Before the company begins to move on its new goodies , it has Open Interface version 2.1 to get out of the door . |
| 10 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 11 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 12 | ‘ We must have a five-point plan for autumn safety : 1 ) Get all poisonous plants clearly labelled ; 2 ) Put government health warnings on toadstools ; 3 ) Secure all dangerous-looking branches ; 4 ) Spread polythene sheets beneath all major leaf-producing trees ; 5 ) Have a national warning system for cold days on which apples , conkers and so on , are much more likely to fall out of the trees and cause these horrendous injuries . ’ |
| 13 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 14 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 15 | It would be rude to look out of the car windows |
| 16 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 17 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 18 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 19 | Erm will you be glad to move out of the flats ? |
| 20 | And that is why I long to burst out of the world of money and into — into what ? |
| 21 | It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’ |
| 22 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 23 | It was Crane 's horse that had bolted but there was no doubt that if they were all to get out of the forest alive Crane would have to be mounted . |
| 24 | It is possible to switch out of the loan if interest rates fall , but this will cost a penalty equivalent to one month 's interest payments . |
| 25 | Charles said he was fine and he was able to see out of the window , although it was remarkably small . |
| 26 | It 's a high seat , so a small child is able to see out of the window , and the ‘ recline ’ control is easily reached . |
| 27 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
| 28 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 29 | Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet . |
| 30 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |