Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [prep] [art] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First a cow is pushed out of the way by the trained elephants so that her calf can be safely roped and led away . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 3 | It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy . |
| 4 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 5 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |
| 6 | It swims , with its legs tucked out of the way alongside its flanks , by sinuous movements of its body and by beating its tail . |
| 7 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 8 | When the Second War came , the Gondola and Lifeboat were stored out of the way at Fleetwood Depot , but the Bandwagon continued unilluminated to advertise various war efforts . |
| 9 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |
| 10 | It was painstakingly worked out as a way of preventing some women — usually those whose privileged access to higher education had given them confidence and articulacy in public speaking — from dominating and silencing others . |
| 11 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , Philippe thought I should be kept out of the way for a few days … ’ |
| 13 | The last point , far from being the hardest on which to reach agreement , was the easiest : it was cleared out of the way at the very beginning , Gandhi accepting Irwin 's formulation without demur and apparently feeling no discomfort at disregarding what he knew to be the views of the Congress Working Committee . |
| 14 | The shoulder on the waste restricts access to the headstock side of the sphere , but this is cleared out of the way with a gouge , using the sphere cutting tool as a rest . |
| 15 | You 'd start off with parliamentary business then have a review of foreign affairs , and very important departmental things may often have to be shoved out of the way to another Cabinet . |