Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 cos you get fed up of them in the end
2 The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place .
3 We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night .
4 Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end .
5 Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject .
6 The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it .
7 The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights .
8 Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement .
9 I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’
10 The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night .
11 They both gasped as the breath was knocked out of them by the impact .
12 While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding !
13 Because although the hotpots cost a pound er most people er will will buy drinks at the bar and er we 'll make fifty P out of them in the evening at the bar so you know we 'll make five pounds from anybody we sell tickets to from now on .
14 We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness .
15 ‘ Look , ’ he said , awkwardly , ‘ I know I 've taken the piss out of you in the past .
16 But the character of the report as it turned out in the end owed a great deal to Sir William Beveridge himself , who determined to make a ‘ crusade ’ out of it for the sake of the achievement of social reform .
17 The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’
18 So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted .
19 Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment .
20 Were you out out of it at the time or what ?
21 Oliver held up the bottom of the pocket with one hand , as he had seen the Dodger hold it , and pulled the handkerchief lightly out of it with the other .
22 To do well , you need to become sensitive both to surges of lift and to the feeling of flying out of it into the sink .
23 When something does n't go as we had hoped we must try to see the good that comes out of it in the end .
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