Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid .
2 Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone .
3 If anything , watching bits and pieces of his perfectly chiselled anatomy appear out of the murky darkness , and then disappear again , was an experience that was faintly and uncomfortably erotic .
4 On black nights in Cornwall the piskies fairly leap out of the twisted holly trees and granite stones and I rush inside , grateful for the light , the fire , the warmth of a human voice .
5 At his most repellent , thick tendrils and leaves coil out of the forced-open mouth , eyes , or nose , lush and relentless , engulfing the victim 's head .
6 However , competitive pressures can still be generated by another feature of the industry mentioned before — the relative ease of entry into and exit out of the big league .
7 Things start to look boring when you exit out of the WYSIWYG add-in mode — no surprises here for 1-2-3 users
8 A wandering tramp climbed into an unlocked ground floor window for a nights sleep out of the icy wind .
9 Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’
10 " The new Queen can go whistle up her kilter , " muttered Harry , and setting his leather tankard down on the earth floor beside the grate , stroke out of the front kitchen and into the foggy night .
11 If we ever climb out of the current recession , the skills shortage in the industry will be a major problem .
12 The explanation is that the emitted particles tunnel out of the black hole from a region of which an external observer has no knowledge other than its mass , angular momentum , and electric charge .
13 But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane .
14 ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’
15 Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb .
16 Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are .
17 Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done .
18 Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense .
19 Get out of the fucking way .
20 ‘ It 's not fucking lover-boy , dear , now get out of the fucking bath and do as you 're told and you wo n't get hurt . ’
21 If some of those who resist and resent the imposition , opt out of the electoral system ( and the calculation is that these will be those who are thought , either now or in the future , likely to benefit from the present array of public services ) , while others are more inclined to vote at local elections for a party which offers to cut and reorganize services , the electoral outcome would be dramatic .
22 If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple .
23 If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple .
24 Well , I give a vote that erm , because certainly not everybody 's aware that er , this er Service director is merely a way to get round to payments that different people have opt out of the social chapter .
25 As the discussion of the previous chapter would suggest , their objectives do not arise ready made in response to some supposed ‘ needs ’ of the accumulation process ; they emerge out of the complex interplay within the state of organized political interests .
26 Keep out of the old man 's hair mostly . ’
27 It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door
28 Brian Clough has already made an inquiry for the player he tried to sign a couple of years ago from Arsenal and , if Leeds go out of the European Cup tonight , a rapid departure could be on the cards .
29 Erm there 's one just as you go out of the french window .
30 The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia .
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