Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Is everyone bidding out of future pay ? " |
| 2 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 3 | I came out of slippered retirement and enjoyed a late bonus by visiting the old familiar places once again — but this time with a master cameraman . |
| 4 | Yet , by his own admission , ‘ I tuned out of pop music with Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 5 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 6 | The second half of the chapter proposes that whole group work is a working method which develops out of small group work and gives greater coherence to it . |
| 7 | Pate 's Grammar School in Cheltenham , which opted out of local authority control three years ago , faces making teachers redundant if it does n't find the money by April . |
| 8 | There are great chunks of life , after childhood , which drop out of conscious memory . |
| 9 | Heavy gold-framed paintings of Hanover ancestors hung from a picture rail ; in each corner of the room were columns of shiny black marble topped by big dark green plants which drooped out of white marble urns . |
| 10 | By political I mean those cases which arise out of controversial legislation or controversial action initiated by public authorities , or which touch important moral or social issues . |
| 11 | ‘ No doubt you speak out of long experience , ’ said the abbot . |
| 12 | This can also be useful in rolling some models , but may require compromises elsewhere , if you run out of available pitch ranges . |
| 13 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who has not been seen since she walked out of Broadgreen Hospital , Liverpool , two weeks ago . |
| 14 | Sean Kerly , one of Britain 's hockey gold medallists in Seoul four years ago , who bowed out of international competition in Barcelona , also gets the MBE . |
| 15 | With 33000 general practitioners working 30 years or more ( ages 35 to 65 ) this means an annual retirement vacuum of 1100 ; add to this perhaps 400 a year who retire or expire earlier or who move out of general practice , and this adds up to 1500 . |
| 16 | The project in question was Adam Adamant Lives , a less fantastic , if still fantasy-based , series about another time-traveller who comes out of suspended animation from 1902 into the ‘ Swinging London ’ world of 1965 . |
| 17 | Let me shift out of third-person narrative . |
| 18 | Crombies were skimpy Chesterfields and I never knew a kid to have one made out of real Crombie cloth . |
| 19 | For just this reason the only scheme of family allowances acceptable to the Labour movement as a whole was one financed out of general taxation . |
| 20 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 21 | Then the guides lured a barking deer , with the sound of a pipe they made out of half-split bamboo . |
| 22 | The particular bacteria used , which flourish around the volcanoes and geysirs in Yellowstone National Park in the United States , will digest themselves once they run out of other food . |
| 23 | This enabled her to opt out of active life and become totally dependent . |
| 24 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 25 | The Arnhem mortar fragment had ended his war however , and by the time he got out of military hospital it was more or less over . |
| 26 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 27 | The nasal strip was popular until the middle of the twelfth century , when it dropped out of general use . |
| 28 | Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep . |
| 29 | Thereafter he dropped out of active politics , and died 6 September 1658 . |
| 30 | This screening proved so uncomfortable for the group 's largest component , the Nahdlatul Ulama ( NU ) that , in 1984 , it pulled out of competitive politics altogether . |