Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 2 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 7 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 9 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 10 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 11 | ‘ I get them out of the public library . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 17 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm . |
| 21 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 24 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 25 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 26 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 27 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 28 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 29 | He is currently in Israel although a leg strain will keep him out of the national side , who play Finland in Helsinki in a World Cup tie tomorrow . |
| 30 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |