Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters .
2 The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project .
3 The ANC subsequently announced the postponement until June 1991 of a national congress initially planned for December , when a new leadership was to have been elected , on the grounds that delays in agreeing the conditions for the return of the exiles meant that a large proportion of ANC membership would still be out of the country at that time .
4 If not he may even be out of the team .
5 They must n't be out of the perimeters of the pallet .
6 there 's still a feeling Nick Brown may not yet be out of the woods .
7 He 'd most likely be out of the wood by now .
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