Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not , I out of the machine I think it is . |
| 2 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 3 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 4 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 5 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 6 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 7 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 8 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 9 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 10 | Oh charming , I see , since when did you last chucked one of yours out of the beasties . |
| 11 | Although Heseltine published his own plans to amend the poll tax , he felt obliged , in the same week , to issue yet another declaration of loyalty to the Prime Minister , thus apparently ruling himself out of a leadership contest in 1990 . |
| 12 | The result is that , whereas , for the passive reader , the novel effectively ends with Oliveira seemingly about to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window , the active reader goes beyond this to the understanding that Oliveira 's jump into the void is a metaphorical leap into a metaphysical state , where conventional categories are abolished and dualistic contradictions reconciled . |
| 13 | ‘ He could n't sort himself out of a paper bag ! ’ |
| 14 | WHINGEING Tony Cottee talked himself out of a job , then watched his stand-in play a major role in the Everton tragi-comedy that followed , writes Graham Fisher . |
| 15 | And if Mr. Birt does find himself out of a job , he could always try his luck as a timeshare salesman . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
| 17 | He shook himself out of a spiral of suspicion and isolation . |
| 18 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 19 | We recall that in the notebooks Dostoevsky has Raskolnikov reflect upon his crime and declare he had to commit it to achieve moral development and get himself out of the mess he was in . |
| 20 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 21 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 22 | Eventually , Joicey cornered him , and in desperation , the keeper threw himself out of the nearest open window ; landing ten feet below , with a badly sprained arm and sore head . |
| 23 | said Billy , and heaved himself out of the chair with difficulty . |
| 24 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 25 | Will the criminal have to climb down from the roof ( in which case he ca n't take a lot with him ) , or can he go downstairs and let himself out of the house ? |
| 26 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 27 | The much-travelled Allison , 65 , coaching consultant and now caretaker-manager of Division One 's bottom club , immediately ruled himself out of the job full-time . |
| 28 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 29 | Whittingham joined Pompey four years ago after buying himself out of the Army for £450 . |
| 30 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |