Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 2 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 3 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 4 | Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur . |
| 5 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 6 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 7 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 8 | He was in his fifties — the only child had been a late arrival — but he exuded physical wellbeing and self-confidence , reminding her somehow of a well-dressed bull . |
| 9 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 10 | Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson talked him out of an immediate announcement , but Graham Taylor 's decision not to retain Robson for next week 's decisive game in Poland made any further delay pointless . |
| 11 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 12 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 13 | We have some friends whose 21-year-old daughter was murdered by a boyfriend who threw her out of a third-storey window . |
| 14 | To have tried to help Jacqui in the matter of the photographs was illogical , but at least generous , getting her out of an awkward situation . |
| 15 | A person will only be an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator if there is a submission to him either of a specific dispute or of present points of difference or of defined differences that may in future arise and if there is agreement that his decision will be binding . |
| 16 | He is not a flamboyant man , nor is he much of a social butterfly except by comparison with the rest of his senior colleagues who tend to keep to their own counsel and lives in Barnes . |
| 17 | Builders ' rubble and other waste material some of it possibly of a dangerous nature is being dumped there and in particular the northernmost pond is being filled in and levelled . |
| 18 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 19 | First , always do it out of a dark tone , preferably a uniform one . |
| 20 | Parent 's of pupils at a top Gloucestershire school are being asked to bale it out of a 160,000 pound crisis . |
| 21 | I make it out of a fucking cocoa tin ! ’ |
| 22 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 23 | No daily Hansard is at hand , to get us out of a tight corner . |