Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air in the wood was damp and smelt of peat , the path was muddy and wet , and it was exhausting constantly pushing brambles and twigs out of the way . |
| 2 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |
| 3 | He swung his legs out of the bed and realised with a shock what day it was . |
| 4 | Then she swung her legs out of the bed and hurriedly got dressed . |
| 5 | With no clear plan in her head , she pushed her legs out of the bed . |
| 6 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 7 | She handed him his denim jacket and swung her legs out of the car . |
| 8 | I jumped straight off the table and ran through his legs out of the room . |
| 9 | When he realised his mammy was at the door , he swung his legs out of the chair and came rushing to greet her . |
| 10 | Downstairs , the Sikhs , the Magistrate , Rayne , a couple of young ensigns , and a motley collection of indigo planters and Eurasians , were engaged in a desperate fight to keep the sepoys out of the building ; but already they were being driven back from doors and windows . |
| 11 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 12 | The first steps out of the greenhouse |
| 13 | The first steps out of the greenhouse |
| 14 | An askari salutes as Fairfax steps out of the car in uniform . |
| 15 | Fairfax steps out of the car . |
| 16 | But then I saw ghastly yellow figures staggering like drunkards out of the wall of smoke … |
| 17 | It 's not the business of social services staff , from directors downwards , to pull their chestnuts out of the fire by disguising the facts . |
| 18 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school . |
| 20 | Super-hip fashion accessory or just a way of keeping the kids out of the amusement arcades ? |
| 21 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 22 | ‘ So I just — I got the kids out of the house — ‘ n ’ I rang this number . ’ |
| 23 | We had difficulty persuading our kids out of the creche and into their different groups , they liked the wee ones so much ! |
| 24 | I was down there serenading my heart out and they all started to pop their heads out of the window . |
| 25 | There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window . |
| 26 | It gives them plenty of cover and also somewhere to rest with their heads out of the water but their bodies submerged . |
| 27 | As he spoke , he confessed he had already started moving funds out of the country . |
| 28 | At the same time the private sector and foreign capital lose confidence in the ability of the government to manage its affairs and so people prefer not to invest but take funds out of the country . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co folks laid us a false trail a few weeks ago when we reported — on their say-so — that the company would be letting two more Snakes out of the basket come mid September ( UX No 397 ) . |
| 30 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |