Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " 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 | The PLO could no longer remain out of the war . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 14 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |
| 19 | Many , if not most , events implicated in depression do not occur out of the blue . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 22 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd just come out of the army . |
| 24 | We 'd just come out of the harbour at Boulogne and a wave come . |
| 25 | ‘ Why did n't Cosmas just get out of the bed ? ’ |
| 26 | His assailant did not come out of the affair unscathed . |
| 27 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 28 | His offer did not come out of the blue . |
| 29 | TV time is bought well in advance , and is subject to a standard cancellation date — of eight weeks — beyond which the advertiser and agency can not back out of the commitment to advertise ( though in practice an agency may , in an emergency , transfer the time to another client or a different brand ) . |
| 30 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |