Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] of [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 2 | ‘ Some kids will take the video club membership card out of mum 's purse and will go and get Texas Chainsaw Massacre and play it on video . ’ |
| 3 | I think she thought I had taken the wind out of Rossetti 's sails … . |
| 4 | ‘ You do a bit , ’ said Betty with a note of true concern , and quite taking the wind out of Lydia 's sails , who wondered whether it was true that she had been seriously wounded and was repressing her hurt to the detriment of her psyche . |
| 5 | BRITAIN was in utter chaos last night as John Major pulled the plunging pound out of Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 6 | I left George 's office and went two doors along to my roomette to dig my telescopic-lens binoculars-camera out of Tommy 's holdall , and I sat and waited by the window for gaunt-face 's return . |
| 7 | Bright Eyes : you can keep shampoo out of babies ' eyes by smearing a line of Vaseline just above their eyebrows . |
| 8 | By then , Jack Nicholson had , after a lot of heart-searching , agreed he was going to make a movie out of Larner 's book for BBS , with Larner himself as joint scriptwriter . |
| 9 | Just talking about it made her jittery enough to need a nip out of Thacker 's flask in Sam 's opinion . |
| 10 | The hearing , which is now 12 weeks old , was told that the fitting out of Britain 's first civil PWR could generate 6000 manufacturing jobs . |
| 11 | Just as a wild leopard would store its prey out of the reach of scavengers and rival predators high in the branches of a tree , Harriet took her victim on to the roof out of Elie 's reach . |
| 12 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 13 | The defender 's arms , still in the ‘ X ’ position , push the opponent 's fist out of harm 's way and then counter-attack by quickly grabbing the attacker 's outstretched striking arm . |
| 14 | He crossed the room and took the cat out of Kiku 's hands . |
| 15 | Somebody must have let the cat out of Glynn 's office shortly before midnight and , from Dippy Martin 's evidence , the likelihood was that the somebody was a woman . |
| 16 | The Scot forged into a 6-5 lead after eight ends of the opening set but Allcock grabbed the double he needed for a 7-6 win , before quickly putting the second out of Muir 's reach . |
| 17 | Jehan took the bow out of Alexei 's hands . |
| 18 | Alexei took the bow out of Kadan 's hands . |
| 19 | A simple solution is to use an old film canister and carry just a few hooks leaving the open box at home out of harm 's way . |
| 20 | Pollack , known as Jaws because of his ball-hunting capability , certainly took a bite out of Blackburn 's title hopes . |
| 21 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
| 22 | He took the sword out of Alexei 's hand and jabbed it into the planks at the bottom of the punt , then draped Alexei 's coat over it . |
| 23 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 24 | But pure , instinctive reaction moves his body out of harm 's way . |
| 25 | They too drain the vitality out of women 's tears and replace them with passivity , penance and guilt . |
| 26 | Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here , looking forward with hope and enthusiasm to the task that lies ahead , working alongside many others in the building up of God 's kingdom within the diocese of Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | In many respects The Dear Deceit is a summing up of Brooke-Rose 's first two novels . |
| 28 | By 1895 she had attained the opening up of Lincoln 's Inn Fields to the poor . |
| 29 | Both leaders , who reiterated their political commitment to the trade pact , had disagreed on specifics , especially the opening up of Mexico 's oil industry to US competition . |
| 30 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |