Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 2 | And tonight the orchestra , intrigued by the vibrations they had picked up of something unusual happening this season , gave the entrance a full-bodied flourish of emotional sound , a build-up of chord and melody that culminated with Therese , shimmering , a mass of silver and flashing diamonds , swinging her way down to front stage , smiling , radiant , totally in control , moving quickly , gracefully around her stage guests , a wave of her muff to this one , a kiss blown to that . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he always remained undaunted and could hardly wait for the winding up of his previous effort before starting to plan its successor . |
| 4 | And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like the being able to slip out of his own head and stand in a corner , hang on the ceiling , terrifyingly , silent-screamingly BE SOMEWHERE ELSE , looking back at the body left behind . |
| 8 | Roger suddenly began to struggle out of his wet shirt . |
| 9 | The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over . |
| 10 | The outside world scrambled out of its African involvements . |
| 11 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Soon after , Averroes Bucaram was voted out of his parliamentary post , but refused to leave quietly . |
| 14 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 15 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 16 | Besides , everyone else is bidding out of their next pay , just as I am . |
| 17 | Maybe something pretty wonderful had come out of her shattered dreams for one perfect , shining summer after all . |
| 18 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 19 | ‘ He appears to have come out of his last race at Haydock very well , ’ Gaselee said , ‘ and I am hopeful that he will run another big race next Saturday . |
| 20 | Overall , the most interesting examples of Stannard 's treatment come out of his own field of physics . |
| 21 | Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death . |
| 22 | At the age of 47 , he has come out of his creative mid-life crisis and knows how to follow his stunning screen work . |
| 23 | He had come out of it successful , respected and secretly wealthy . |
| 24 | Gascoigne admitted : ‘ It was so intense , it was like a matter of life or death , and thank God I 've come out of it alive . |
| 25 | Good has come out of it all , she says . |
| 26 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The art is to see what needs to be transformed , lifted out of its old state and elevated into a new one . |
| 29 | He had felt betrayed by the visit , after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it . |
| 30 | Rather tentatively at first , volunteers came forward to work the word-processors ; another manned the phone continuously from that first day until the office finally moved out of its temporary accommodation in the middle of May . |