Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 2 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 3 | Ben Hesketh had clearly done well for himself out of his antiques business . |
| 4 | It seemed , in fact , that Cecil 's house belonged to my father , who made a cave for himself out of its damp and its wood , the sweet musk of its corners . |
| 5 | Phil Silvers had made an institution for himself out of the rank of an army sergeant . |
| 6 | ‘ Although this circumstance continually brings an unwelcome number of new soldiers of fortune into the field and into competition with the already existing individual capitalists , it also reinforces the supremacy of capital itself , expands its base and enables it to recruit ever new forces for itself out of the substratum of society . |
| 7 | Clara swore that she would pay for herself out of her Post Office Savings : her mother said that her dead father had n't put that money away for her to squander on trips abroad . |
| 8 | They are locked in on themselves out of a sense of fear or inadequacy . |
| 9 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 10 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 11 | Junk material Children might like to make rooms and furniture for themselves out of junk material . |
| 12 | " Then how come they do n't make anything for themselves out of all this hard labor ? " inquired the senator politely . |
| 13 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |