Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] of [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll only need them for your school work , ’ her mother reassured her , also trying to talk herself out of her own dismay . |
| 2 | You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression . |
| 3 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 4 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 5 | But Liza Tremayne was well aware that there were not all that many who would be able to help her out of her present predicament . |
| 6 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 7 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 8 | The bantams were waiting for her to let them out of their safe house . |
| 9 | If you have children of school-going age , the law is n't going to chuck them out of their settled home . |
| 10 | He had n't made a deliberate decision to keep her out of his private and professional life . |
| 11 | The Hollow Men lack a bit of spark and passion , but what they really need to lift them out of their mid table rut is just one killer tune to help bring their genial pop to the attention of a wider audience . |
| 12 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 13 | And if all else failed it would probably be an effective , if unsubtle way of letting his wife know that something rather more serious than Marriage Guidance was required to get them out of their marital difficulties . |
| 14 | To get itself out of its self-dug hole , the Department of the Environment claimed that the 1981 study 's improved methodology simply showed that the 1971 and 1976 surveys had underestimated unfitness and disrepair . |
| 15 | ‘ To get her out of my lovely bride 's way ? |
| 16 | Ruth shook her head , tried to twist it out of his menacing grasp . |
| 17 | ‘ He said , ‘ John you need to do something to haul yourself out of your choral doldrums — something spice and interesting that 'll make a splash in New York . |
| 18 | This new status may enable the museums to get themselves out of their present crisis situation and implement some plans . |
| 19 | You need to develop certain qualities to raise yourself out of your present state : be honourable in your dealings with others and only speak the truth which is in your heart . |
| 20 | This offer to transport us out of our own world , with all its problems , unfinished business , boredom and disappointment , into another world where we may escape these things or negotiate them vicariously , is perhaps the fundamental appeal of all narrative . |
| 21 | He predicts that intense X-rays will destroy hazardous organic wastes without ever having to take them out of their 55 gallon drums — a much safer and cleaner operation than most clean-up techniques . |
| 22 | His mind could be changed , she reasoned within herself , especially if Doreen made an effort to charm him out of his present anti-female trend of thought . |
| 23 | I panned the view , looking for visual stimulation to jerk me out of my maudlin stupor . |
| 24 | Jess waited for her to make something out of her small success , but she did n't and sat with folded hands looking into the ever-changing flames licking round the coal . |