Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] of [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 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 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 8 | Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life . |
| 9 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 10 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 11 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 12 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 14 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 17 | ‘ I get them out of the public library . ’ |
| 18 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 19 | So much so , that the Commissioner , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Sumner , had taken them out of the formal structure and appointed Bragg as his personal detective assistant . |
| 20 | — 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 ! |
| 21 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 22 | So we continue travelling hopefully , traversing the geography , and absorbing impressions that may get me out of the pictorial routine that all artists are prone to . |
| 23 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 24 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 25 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 28 | The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm . |
| 29 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 30 | It had loomed over him out of the spectral mist , more horrible by far than the ghoul brats he and Cleo had encountered in the forest . |