Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He can hardly back out of the exhibition now . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , most of us now admit that reason unassisted by observation can never break out of the closed circle of logic and mathematics . |
| 11 | 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 . |