Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 2 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 3 | She imagined the child Lucenzo , parading in the Piazza in his brocade coat and shiny buckle shoes one year , then finding himself part of a real-life fairy-tale the next . |
| 4 | A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice . |
| 5 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 6 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 7 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 9 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 10 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 11 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 12 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 13 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 14 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |
| 15 | From first to last he kept himself out of the public limelight . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 17 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 18 | In fact , the party emerged out of working-class experience ; more specifically , it was itself part of a political response to that experience . |
| 19 | This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law . |
| 20 | They visibly sharpened at the end of the decade as medics were forced onto the defensive by a growing feminist campaign demanding the repeal of the acts — itself part of the wider upsurge of the mid-Victorian women 's movement . |
| 21 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 22 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 23 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
| 24 | There 's a slide projector at the back of the hall which I can control from the front so I may be aiming to get some slides for you instead of the overhead projector . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 26 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 27 | One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion . |
| 28 | So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt . |
| 29 | Kelly 's scream echoed silently within her as , like something out of a distant dream , the band played on . |
| 30 | The other women had n't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes . |