Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't put it past the old devil to have done it out of sheer bravado . ’ |
| 2 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 3 | We 've bailed you out of two freakin' world wars , and you 're still whinin' about it . |
| 4 | Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over . |
| 5 | Oh my knee , it feels like I 've pulled it out of joint or something ! |
| 6 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 7 | You 've destroyed them out of sheer pettiness ! ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 9 | ‘ I understand that you have known him longest of all the family ? ’ |
| 10 | that you have represented it out of all proportion to what it is , and you have frightened people unnecessarily . |
| 11 | Years of hard training , injuries and arduous touring have taken him ahead of British brothers Martin and Graham Bell , but have brought him little remuneration so far . |
| 12 | Only Cup runs have kept them out of those positions so far . |