Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 2 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 3 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 4 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 5 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 6 | Phil Silvers had made an institution for himself out of the rank of an army sergeant . |
| 7 | A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left . |
| 8 | I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night . |
| 9 | It came moaning towards them out of the blackness . |
| 10 | At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic . |
| 11 | A large sign swooped towards them out of the night , its message glowing luminously in the beam of the headlights . |
| 12 | And he ran past me out of the room . |
| 13 | ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door . |
| 14 | Richards 's share was rather larger , 93 to be precise , the fourteen overs yielding 106 runs as Richards hammered 21 fours and five sixes — one of them out of the ground — in all , for 189 not out off 170 balls . |
| 15 | Fear has driven many of them out of the job . |
| 16 | In the end Bartocci solved the problem by shooing both of them out of the office and leading Zen downstairs . |
| 17 | Foster , frustrated by a number of near misses and a dropped catch , turned to take his anger out on the stumps , kicking two of them out of the ground . |
| 18 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 19 | Oh charming , I see , since when did you last chucked one of yours out of the beasties . |
| 20 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 21 | I want the pair of you out of the office in ten minutes . |
| 22 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 23 | How do you get rid of , what 's the best , what did I say was the best way of getting rid of everything out of the cell ? |
| 24 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 25 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 26 | As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared . |
| 27 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 28 | ‘ All you can do now , ’ she said , ‘ is knock both of mine out of the way . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 30 | Everywhere she went in the flat , she seemed to catch sight of it out of the corner of her eye . |