Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 2 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 3 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 4 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 5 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 6 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 7 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 8 | The US government , which has no relations with the PLO and has sought consistently to keep it out of the Middle East peace process , said the request was still being discussed five hours later when news arrived that the 62-year-old chairman had been found . |
| 9 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 10 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 11 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 12 | No daily Hansard is at hand , to get us out of a tight corner . |
| 13 | Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur . |
| 14 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 15 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 16 | The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category . |
| 17 | He looked ready to throw her out of the moving taxi . |
| 18 | With the ball often in need of a team of scuba-divers to dig it out of the muddy waters , the decision made sense . |