Example sentences of "[adv] of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And think better of me in the future ! ’ |
| 2 | The Emma was just astern of us in the convoy and keepin' station fine , even though she was a coal-burner . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So why not bring a little of it into the office ? ’ |
| 4 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 5 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 6 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 7 | Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end . |
| 8 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 9 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 10 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 11 | Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement . |
| 12 | I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’ |
| 13 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 14 | They both gasped as the breath was knocked out of them by the impact . |
| 15 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 16 | Because although the hotpots cost a pound er most people er will will buy drinks at the bar and er we 'll make fifty P out of them in the evening at the bar so you know we 'll make five pounds from anybody we sell tickets to from now on . |
| 17 | We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , awkwardly , ‘ I know I 've taken the piss out of you in the past . |
| 19 | But the character of the report as it turned out in the end owed a great deal to Sir William Beveridge himself , who determined to make a ‘ crusade ’ out of it for the sake of the achievement of social reform . |
| 20 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 21 | So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted . |
| 22 | Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment . |
| 23 | Were you out out of it at the time or what ? |
| 24 | Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand , as he had seen the Dodger hold it , and pulled the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other . |
| 25 | To do well , you need to become sensitive both to surges of lift and to the feeling of flying out of it into the sink . |
| 26 | When something does n't go as we had hoped we must try to see the good that comes out of it in the end . |
| 27 | About the year 944/1537–8 , the two kazaskers , Ebussu'ud Efendi and Civizade , the latter a teacher of Molla Bostan 's , spoke well of him in the presence of Sultan Suleyman ; and as a result of their intercession , and of the sultan 's interest in a monograph that Molla Bostan had recently written , it was decreed that he should be appointed to a medrese . |
| 28 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 29 | Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket . |
| 30 | But when he put his hand lightly on her shoulder to steer her ahead of him through the door she jumped involuntarily , powerless to control the response . |