Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is enough to point out that there are similarities between the ‘ overpopulation ’ view and the view that farmers and pastoralists should be educated out of their ignorant , lethargic and traditional ways . |
| 2 | Collective bargaining institutions and rules can not be expected to function adequately when wrenched out of their original context and implanted elsewhere , since they are closely linked with the structure and organisation of political and social power in their own environment or habitat . |
| 3 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |
| 4 | Besides , everyone else is bidding out of their next pay , just as I am . |
| 5 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 6 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |
| 7 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Smashed out of their bloody boxes as usual . ’ |
| 9 | In contrast , in the European-style cities of east and central Africa such as Nairobi , Lusaka and Harare , the informals have frequently been hounded out of their preferred locations . |
| 10 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 11 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 12 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 13 | His wife and children face being turned out of their 17th century farmhouse after 12 years there . |
| 14 | They can not figure it out , and so go on acting out of their inward instinctive patterning . |
| 15 | Many of the incomers in resident private housing are still occupationally mobile : ( they are still mostly young ) : many have moved out of their adoptive communities , usually with a sizeable profit , after selling their houses . |
| 16 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |
| 17 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 18 | Hence , it is argued , the technology was developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production rather than of small-scale craft producers operating out of their own cottages . |
| 19 | The move was designed to protect home riders who , it was claimed , were being balloted out of their own events by foreigners . |
| 20 | Avatars , made out of their own perverse essence , would hook into the spirits of vulnerable psykers , into greedy , heedlessly ambitious mortals , and would offer those dupes a little power — playing them like living puppets on intangible strings — before twisting them into tools of evil and eventually consuming them . |
| 21 | Now that the ex-cadets were initiated Scouts , they could speak out of their own accord . |
| 22 | Women from along the street came out of their front doors too . |
| 23 | Thankfully both pilots came out of their fleeting meeting physically unscathed but both will remember the event forever more . |
| 24 | Written by Mae Brown , Chris Bennetts and Jane Sloan , the book came out of their different professional experiences of working with boy victims of two paedophile rings disclosed in 1990 in Cornwall . |
| 25 | These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion . |
| 26 | Instinctively her audience came out of their bemused state and worked quickly . |
| 27 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 28 | And the birds turned up of their own volition ? |
| 29 | Rabbits would dash out of their losing darkness , and the village boys would chase them with sticks and yells , careful not to get in front of the two who had the guns . |
| 30 | People could then ‘ cash ’ their vouchers at any school of their choice , and they could top them up by paying out of their own pockets for a more expensive school . |