Example sentences of "[pn reflx] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 5 | I bet we burn ourselves out before the Sun ! |
| 6 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 7 | Feeling one step from death , Branson dragged himself out to the car and drove quickly through the early morning traffic to the hospital in Wimbledon . |
| 8 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 9 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 10 | But , like Horsley , Everett was immediately infected by the challenge of the project and the admirable enthusiasm which it represented , and he put himself out on a limb to help . |
| 11 | With a sudden movement Marcus stretched himself out on the bed , also lying on his side , bringing his body into contact with Patrick 's , pushing his knees into the crook of Patrick 's knees , and his breast against his back . |
| 12 | ‘ Be quiet yourself , ’ he said , stretching himself out on the uncomfortable horsehair sofa . |
| 13 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 14 | Sam spread himself out on the rug between them . |
| 15 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He could n't sort himself out of a paper bag ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And if Mr. Birt does find himself out of a job , he could always try his luck as a timeshare salesman . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
| 22 | He shook himself out of a spiral of suspicion and isolation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | said Billy , and heaved himself out of the chair with difficulty . |
| 29 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 30 | 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 ? |