Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm freezing , but I ca n't get out of the water with you there . ’ |
| 2 | ca n't get out of the habit . |
| 3 | That 's right , in other words , the insurance company ca n't back out of the contract , providing the client is paying his premiums . |
| 4 | But you ca n't back out of the whole rehearsal |
| 5 | You can argue about single currency but you ca n't opt out of the European Single Market . |
| 6 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
| 7 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 8 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 10 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 11 | I can not find out of the evidence any facts which support the view or which justify the inference . |
| 12 | TV time is bought well in advance , and is subject to a standard cancellation date — of eight weeks — beyond which the advertiser and agency can not back out of the commitment to advertise ( though in practice an agency may , in an emergency , transfer the time to another client or a different brand ) . |
| 13 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 14 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |
| 15 | No-one except those who are wilfully blind to the nature of our proceedings can possibly spell out of the Bill any condonation whatever of homosexual conduct which can affect young people in their formative years . |
| 16 | The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon . |
| 17 | ‘ He can hardly back out of the exhibition now . ’ |
| 18 | Potential purchasers can willingly stay out of the market and owners can stay put , but lenders — and the insurance companies which share the losses — will face yet further provisions as more repossessed homes are sold at a loss . |
| 19 | Stress can also drain out of the glass as well as drip into it , and the process of overcoming the problems of stress and anxiety is about learning how to turn off the stress tap and drain down the stress glass . |
| 20 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 21 | I 've had some success with Paul Reed Smith guitars , which you can virtually take out of the box , tune them up and they 're ready to go . ’ |
| 22 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 23 | However , most of us now admit that reason unassisted by observation can never break out of the closed circle of logic and mathematics . |
| 24 | But having said that of course , Brackley , they have nothing to lose ; looking at the two sides , the majority of the players would you believe it are ex of Banbury United a side , you can never keep out of the news Jane . |