Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes .
2 He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path .
3 He 's picked you out of the pack and thinks you can win the Open . ’
4 The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’
5 He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist .
6 The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night .
7 However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something .
8 ‘ You 've got me out of the house at last , ’ Bertha whimpered .
9 How else could he have got them out of the keep ?
10 I understand it was your own stupidity in refusing to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd got her out of the house .
11 The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road .
12 That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch .
13 ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’
14 And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner .
15 But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes .
16 Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked .
17 ‘ The League should have kicked him out of the game , and the PFA have not done enough to get back the money owed to men like David Howell .
18 Actually , I 've heard a little about your relationship from my aunt — like the fact that you refused to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd kicked her out of the house . ’
19 But I felt I should of worn it out of the material .
20 This was never more threatened from the right than in the years before 1914 and a leader who had respected constitutional niceties at that time would have driven them out of the system where they could have been far more dangerous .
21 But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer .
22 It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough .
23 The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar .
24 Zara 's family and tennis friends in Northern Ireland have undoubtedly given her much of the help that she needed , but the lack of adequate facilities , together with a dormant tennis structure in the province , has left Zara — and other tennis hopefuls — without the opportunity that perhaps her efforts deserve .
25 Had they literally cut them out of the film ?
26 They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned .
27 You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night …
28 After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him .
29 It meant that Ince , who again succeeded in filling the void left by the absence of Robson , and Phelan could hunt down Keane and eventually run him out of the game .
30 ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’
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