Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 2 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 3 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 4 | She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things . |
| 5 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 6 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 7 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 8 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 9 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 10 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | The scrum half has recovered from the injury which would have kept him out of the postponed Durham Cup tie against Horden on Wednesday . |