Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate .
2 ‘ Mr Riddle has a reputation for being a good business man , even a hard man ; did you think you stood any chance of persuading him out of two important objectives without offering anything in return ? ’
3 ‘ This is ludicrous because we are responsible for getting them out of any real trouble , should it arise .
4 Abrams , having mumbled about ‘ the gratitude of the secretary ( of state ) and of the President for getting us out of this jam ’ , was asked by Ibnu again : ‘ But what concrete do we get out of this ? ’
5 At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry .
6 Ace smiled , amused that Belle was back to using we instead of I .
7 After all , elementary particle physics is always trying to split things up into smaller and smaller constituents with a view to treating them independently of each other .
8 Will all members please help us to correct all our records by advising us immediately of any errors in names , addresses and especially in postcodes , on correspondence from the Institute , including Embalmer Envelopes .
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