Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 2 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 3 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 4 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 5 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 6 | He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear . |