Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of [pos pn] [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 | Nevertheless he always remained undaunted and could hardly wait for the winding up of his previous effort before starting to plan its successor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Roger suddenly began to struggle out of his wet shirt . |
| 8 | The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over . |
| 9 | The outside world scrambled out of its African involvements . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Soon after , Averroes Bucaram was voted out of his parliamentary post , but refused to leave quietly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Besides , everyone else is bidding out of their next pay , just as I am . |
| 16 | Maybe something pretty wonderful had come out of her shattered dreams for one perfect , shining summer after all . |
| 17 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Overall , the most interesting examples of Stannard 's treatment come out of his own field of physics . |
| 20 | Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death . |
| 21 | At the age of 47 , he has come out of his creative mid-life crisis and knows how to follow his stunning screen work . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The art is to see what needs to be transformed , lifted out of its old state and elevated into a new one . |
| 24 | He had felt betrayed by the visit , after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 27 | The letter shrilly screams at IBM to come out of its catatonic stupor and save itself BEFORE IT 'S TOO LATE . |
| 28 | If you received any perks with your job , such as a company car or health insurance , then unless you have a very generous employer these will have to come out of your own pocket in future . |
| 29 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on such faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to come out of his two-year retirement . |
| 30 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |