Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] of the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 In her defence , Outram explained that the teaching had led quite naturally out of the children 's questions .
2 But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control .
3 He plucked his sleeve gently out of the boy 's hand , and turned unhurriedly and walked out of the room .
4 After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture .
5 For example , the librarian will certainly have qualified and trained staff to help you get the best out of the library 's resources ( see Chapter 8 on more effective reading ) .
6 He said , ‘ Coffee , sir , ’ and offered the mug , though holding it just out of the President 's reach .
7 I would spend a miserable hour hopping from one foot to the other just out of the babies ' end with my eyes scrunched shut and my mouth in a knot .
8 But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess — and by now she was totally out of the Palace 's control .
9 It will be financed directly out of the firm 's profits .
10 He said when Mr Jones was taken to hospital to have his injuries looked at and photographed , he did not take the opportunity to be taken straight out of the Roberts ' home .
11 And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight .
12 Suddenly the dwarf was tearing himself wildly out of the trooper 's hands , his arms still pinioned , sliding past them towards the darkness behind .
13 Now the trick films came particularly out of the pioneers ' own attitude to their apparatus .
14 Well , she 'd truly burned her boats now , Gina had been thinking as she gazed silently out of the Mercedes 's window at the passing scenery .
15 But here , in what visitors mistook for a tool shed , he was conveniently out of the world 's reach .
16 They might want him or her to have a key , you know and er and just ran the keys up on a thing like that , you know what I mean , they was never out of the person 's possession .
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