Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 2 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 3 | I remember paramedics getting her out of the car , but I could not get out of my seat because my legs were trapped under the dashboard . |
| 4 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 5 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 6 | A battleground of historic events and a jungle of eyes watching him out of the gloom , bright eyes and eyes dulled from misuse , flaring nostrils and faded plumage and gaping jaws and once-golden beaks . |
| 7 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 8 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 9 | British troops shepherded them out of the monastery buildings into 19 Warrior armoured vehicles . |
| 10 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 11 | They dig for days to get them out of the ground , and hide them jealously from other Yahoos . ’ |
| 12 | But that said , the efforts to peck oneself out of the shell of isolation , and to knock politely on other people 's , are perhaps the two most essential strategies for the general reduction of stress . |
| 13 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 14 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 15 | There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile . |
| 16 | Would you be able to afford the two hundred pounds to get it out of the parking ? |
| 17 | Pat 's Jester 's defeat at Haydock yesterday has led Corals to take him out of the King George betting . |
| 18 | As supermodels price themselves out of the market , actresses are open to negotiation — a far better investment , says Glyn . |
| 19 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
| 20 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |
| 21 | bodies sweeping them out of the bay . |
| 22 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |
| 23 | and then you take your long end and you wind above covering the edge and overlapping and then the low , then covering the edge and overlapping , there and again you keep working your way up and down , a figure of eight until you get to the end of your bandage then tie away from the body in your reef knot , either you tuck your ends in or if that 's awkward you can just put a sticking plaster over the ends to get them out of the way like that , so just tuck the ends in and I do n't think your casualty 's going to need a sling for a little graze like that |
| 24 | Beleaguered businessmen welcomed the moves to help them out of the recession , but some sectors of industry were unhappy . |
| 25 | Lady Southdown rose to her feet and the girls followed her out of the room . |
| 26 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 27 | In São Paulo , he was about to find out , but a complex series of engine mishaps put him out of the race . |
| 28 | Then all the glass started to go everywhere and the police helped us out of the area . ’ |
| 29 | But Mitchell wo n't condone the taking of life and soon it seems both good guys and bad guys want him out of the way . |
| 30 | The men dug it out of the ground where it fell and hauled it back to the village . |