Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A forty watt bulb and we 'll reimburse you out of petty cash . ’ |
| 2 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 3 | Perhaps more important , the Administration is again under pressure from US exporters who fear that the high dollar will drive them out of international markets . |
| 4 | You 've destroyed them out of sheer pettiness ! ’ |
| 5 | A lot of money has gone into their schooling but as my financial situation has deteriorated we have had to consider take them out of private education and sending them to state school . |
| 6 | Try to build them out of other aspects of jealousy . |
| 7 | It must have seemed to Bragad 's minions that we were falling on them out of thin air . |
| 8 | Finally , you will need to find a suitable storage container for the bags , to enable them to lie flat , keep them out of direct sunlight and free of dust . |
| 9 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |
| 10 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 11 | What has happened in the current year is we 've started from no involvement with this particular group of clients , and building up where by the end of the year , our best estimate we 're approaching six hundred clients so then we have a commitment of providing either residential care or some care package which keeps them out of residential care . |
| 12 | The knumdrum where the people have gone has now been answered because the amount of domiciliary care needed to keep them out of residential places to meet their needs and wishes turns out to be very much less than we expected , on average less than seven hours a week . |
| 13 | The snake lifted its head , looked at me out of small , black eyes like stones , flicked its tongue a couple of times , slithered to the edge of the verandah and disappeared . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked her to come and get me out of foster homes but she never did . |
| 15 | But she married me out of simple respect . |
| 16 | There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class . |
| 17 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 18 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 19 | ‘ By the time you 'd ripped my character to shreds , lectured me on my grasping capitalist principles , then forced yourself to be nice to me out of commendable loyalty to your family firm , I was hooked . |
| 20 | But Mr Patten — who would earn a tax-free salary of £140,000 — would be expected to remain in office until the handover in 1997 , taking him out of mainstream politics for five years . |
| 21 | Hanns and another friend , Anne Sproat , made a costume for him out of dyed calico , on which Hanns painted huge chrysanthemums . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 23 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 24 | Do n't anger him out of silly pride . ’ |
| 25 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 26 | Arthur had helped get her out of occupied Austria as the war broke out . |
| 27 | As a child , Isabel had been forever wanting and having to shake her younger-sister , shake her out of smiling acceptance , out of vagueness of mind , out of bewilderment , into rebellion and action . |
| 28 | A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes , whose colour she could not determine . |
| 29 | He was an odd little man , peering anxiously up at her out of hunched shoulders through a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles , on his head an outdated tie-wig . |
| 30 | He pointed to the university 's successful three-year programme to steer it out of serious financial problems without compulsory redundancies . |