Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put himself out of the reach of Dr Ali , the Twenty-fourthers and everything else in the school . |
| 2 | Erlich let himself out of the room . |
| 3 | Project yourself out of the routine and into profit |
| 4 | It was six o'clock when I let myself out of the house . |
| 5 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 6 | I quietly let myself out of the flat and ran down the stairs coming too quickly upon a crumpled heap hunched at the bottom . |
| 7 | We recall that in the notebooks Dostoevsky has Raskolnikov reflect upon his crime and declare he had to commit it to achieve moral development and get himself out of the mess he was in . |
| 8 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 9 | As supermodels price themselves out of the market , actresses are open to negotiation — a far better investment , says Glyn . |
| 10 | It 's just a race , after all — if you 're any good , you can wave your arms about while pulling a horse 's back teeth out and keep yourself out of the stewards ' room . |
| 11 | Watching Niall haul himself out of the water , she felt suddenly absurdly shy as , in one fluid movement , he bent to retrieve his own towel , draping it casually around his neck . |