Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scot who holed the winning putt in the match at The Belfry in 1985 laughed off rumours that he would need to pull out of this year 's match . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get out of this place , ’ she breathed . |
| 3 | I just ca n't wait to get out of this house . ’ |
| 4 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 5 | That would have to , that would have to come out of any kind of interview with workers in those other groups really . |
| 6 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 7 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 8 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have to grow out of that habit now you 're no longer an innocent . ’ |
| 10 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 11 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 12 | Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ? |
| 13 | It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) . |
| 14 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
| 15 | ‘ How could it 'ave jumped out of that geezer 's pocket into me hat ? ’ |
| 16 | This does not mean opting out of positive training or the setting of limits . |
| 17 | ‘ I figured you 'd want to get out of those city clothes straight away , ’ he told them with a grin . |
| 18 | A diminishing few of us will continue to come out of sheer love but many will not , especially the young . |
| 19 | Airlines will start pulling out of unprofitable routes rather than fighting for market share . |
| 20 | Did I say running out of likely suspects ? |