Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 2 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 3 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 4 | Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life . |
| 5 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 6 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 7 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 8 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she says to me , as she bundles them out of the front door , ‘ but what can I do ? ’ |
| 10 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 11 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |
| 12 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 13 | ‘ I get them out of the public library . ’ |
| 14 | That means keeping them out of the unpredictable British May weather . |
| 15 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 16 | So much so , that the Commissioner , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Sumner , had taken them out of the formal structure and appointed Bragg as his personal detective assistant . |
| 17 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 18 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 19 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 20 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 21 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 22 | So we continue travelling hopefully , traversing the geography , and absorbing impressions that may get me out of the pictorial routine that all artists are prone to . |
| 23 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 24 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 25 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 26 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 27 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 28 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |
| 29 | The scrum half has recovered from the injury which would have kept him out of the postponed Durham Cup tie against Horden on Wednesday . |
| 30 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |