Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 2 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 3 | The water start uses the force of the wind to pull you out of the water and , when performed properly , is a faster and more efficient means of starting on all types of board . |
| 4 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 5 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 6 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 7 | Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face . |
| 8 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 9 | All sociologists whose work takes them out of the library and brings them into contact with living beings are certain to use the interview in their work . |
| 10 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |
| 11 | So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade . |
| 12 | Despite the blow that the failure of the EDC and the Political Community struck against integration , the first pressing need to salvage something out of the debris was in defence . |
| 13 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 14 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
| 15 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 16 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 17 | Not that going on the course takes you out of the field : a lot of time is spent on rehearsal and a lot of time is spent on performance technique . |
| 18 | Eventually , Joicey cornered him , and in desperation , the keeper threw himself out of the nearest open window ; landing ten feet below , with a badly sprained arm and sore head . |
| 19 | With this comforting thought Henry rang the doorbell , hard , and watched his wife heave herself out of the chair and stump through to the hall . |
| 20 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 21 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 22 | Palmerston returned to the Foreign Office in July 1846 in Russell 's administration and was able to enjoy the effects of the changes he had instigated until December 1851 , when pressure from the Court forced him out of the Foreign Office . |
| 23 | It 's just that Strach was fitter last season than we could have hoped , and we needed his blood and guts leadership to dig us out of the mess we were in . |
| 24 | They suffer far more psychological shock if an event hits them out of the blue . |
| 25 | But by the second day of the adventure , her escort was having trouble getting her out of the pool . |
| 26 | The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors . |
| 27 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 28 | Once the youngster had grabbed what food remained , the adult pulled it out of the tube and took the food from it . |
| 29 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 30 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |