Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] of the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ she said , flapping at him . |
| 2 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 3 | If kids were playing football in the street , they had to accept your authority and get out of the way . |
| 4 | ‘ Get out of the way ! |
| 5 | But get out of the way and let me turn him in if you 're not goin' to lead him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Get out of the way . |
| 7 | ‘ Get out of the way , for Chrissakes . ’ |
| 8 | The boss knows that his or her job is to establish those boundaries , and then get out of the way . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Just tell them to open the doors and get out of the way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 11 | Lydia felt the need to remove herself , as people who stay in hotels get out of the way when the poor chambermaids come to make the beds . |
| 12 | It was so totally new , so inconceivable , the extreme opposite of ‘ Hey , Kaffir , get out of the way ’ , the sort of greeting one usually was given in South Africa . |
| 13 | ‘ Get out of the way , you big goof ! ’ |
| 14 | The single market needs the Social Charter , the Labour Group backs the Social p Charter , the Labour Group is ready for 1993 and the sooner you lot get out of the way and let us get on with it , the better . |
| 15 | And do we understand from your reference , that it 's your policy that armed officers should do that job and then get home , get out of the way and relax a bit ? |
| 16 | Get out of the way and pushes me do n't make me start with you Jo , all this stuff . |
| 17 | The 36-year-old American is unlikely ever again to have such a good chance to lift a 10th title , with Monica Seles absent and Graf out of the way until at least the final . |
| 18 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 19 | The latter can be replaced or ‘ sealed in ’ with gloss paint — get someone else to do this for you if you can , and stay out of the way until the smell of paint has dispersed . |
| 20 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 21 | Dominant hens assert their priority by pecking subordinate hens : pecked subordinate hens move out of the way of the pecker , to allow the dominant hen access to the nesting site , or roosting site she was using , or the food she was about to eat . |
| 22 | I suspect that one day , you 'll both learn to look where you 're going and both move out of the way . |