Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 2 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 3 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 4 | If anything , watching bits and pieces of his perfectly chiselled anatomy appear out of the murky darkness , and then disappear again , was an experience that was faintly and uncomfortably erotic . |
| 5 | On black nights in Cornwall the piskies fairly leap out of the twisted holly trees and granite stones and I rush inside , grateful for the light , the fire , the warmth of a human voice . |
| 6 | At his most repellent , thick tendrils and leaves coil out of the forced-open mouth , eyes , or nose , lush and relentless , engulfing the victim 's head . |
| 7 | However , competitive pressures can still be generated by another feature of the industry mentioned before — the relative ease of entry into and exit out of the big league . |
| 8 | Things start to look boring when you exit out of the WYSIWYG add-in mode — no surprises here for 1-2-3 users |
| 9 | A wandering tramp climbed into an unlocked ground floor window for a nights sleep out of the icy wind . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 11 | " The new Queen can go whistle up her kilter , " muttered Harry , and setting his leather tankard down on the earth floor beside the grate , stroke out of the front kitchen and into the foggy night . |
| 12 | If we ever climb out of the current recession , the skills shortage in the industry will be a major problem . |
| 13 | Photons , no longer coupled to matter by Thomson scattering , climb out of the potential wells produced by the mass fluctuations , resulting in small temperature anisotropies in the surface of last scattering . |
| 14 | BREAK OUT OF THE ORDINARY |
| 15 | The explanation is that the emitted particles tunnel out of the black hole from a region of which an external observer has no knowledge other than its mass , angular momentum , and electric charge . |
| 16 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 17 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 18 | Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb . |
| 19 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 20 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 21 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
| 22 | get out of the cold and have a hot drink . |
| 23 | ‘ Get out of the fucking way . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not fucking lover-boy , dear , now get out of the fucking bath and do as you 're told and you wo n't get hurt . ’ |
| 25 | the values of communitas are strikingly present in the literature and behaviour of what came to be known as the ‘ beat generation ’ , who were succeeded by the ‘ hippies ’ … [ and who ] opt out of the status-bound social order and acquire the stigmata of the lowly … |
| 26 | If some of those who resist and resent the imposition , opt out of the electoral system ( and the calculation is that these will be those who are thought , either now or in the future , likely to benefit from the present array of public services ) , while others are more inclined to vote at local elections for a party which offers to cut and reorganize services , the electoral outcome would be dramatic . |
| 27 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 28 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 29 | Most girls opt out of the physical sciences . |
| 30 | Well , I give a vote that erm , because certainly not everybody 's aware that er , this er Service director is merely a way to get round to payments that different people have opt out of the social chapter . |