Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the family is sitting round peacefully sipping coffee , someone may suddenly rush out of the room . |
| 2 | ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 3 | He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 4 | and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 'd better get out of the water . |
| 6 | Better get out of the way . |
| 7 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better get out of the City , ’ suggested Carradine . |
| 9 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 10 | However should the United States be able to demonstrate the necessary state practice and opinio juris to substantiate a claim of customary international law , there is no reason why such general principles of law should not exist independently of the Convention . |
| 11 | What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said . |
| 12 | Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve . |
| 13 | The PLO could no longer remain out of the war . |
| 14 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 15 | The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily . |
| 16 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 17 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 18 | I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live . |
| 19 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 21 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |
| 22 | Many , if not most , events implicated in depression do not occur out of the blue . |
| 23 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 24 | They will not move out of the tradition in manner or moral , but will only marry higher education and will search for some way to use it . |
| 25 | Indeed , in a sense , behaviour can not develop independently of the environment , and can not , in a developmental sense be called ‘ inherited ’ at all . |
| 26 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 27 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd just come out of the army . |
| 29 | We 'd just come out of the harbour at Boulogne and a wave come . |
| 30 | ‘ Why did n't Cosmas just get out of the bed ? ’ |