Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 2 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 3 | Finland , bound by its treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union , effectively ruled itself out of any participation for the time being . |
| 4 | On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village . |
| 5 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 6 | I watched it for a day or two , then they sent me out of that part of the house , because they knew I was watching what went on . |
| 7 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 8 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 9 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 10 | Likeably laid-back and a philosophic kind of personality , Hastings currently has a crucial priority — recovery from back damage that kept him out of that Second Australian Test . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 12 | The late Nancy Mitford blew it out of all proportion by her ‘ snobbish ’ ( often tongue-incheek ) writings , which have been taken far too seriously by many . |
| 13 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 14 | Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour . |
| 15 | It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material . |
| 16 | Staff at London 's Games Store had sold little of anything to do with the war until the war-games club of an American military base in Britain cleared them out of T-55 tanks ( Iraq 's main battle tank ) and German armoured personnel carriers ( used by the Saudis ) . |
| 17 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 18 | But she married me out of simple respect . |
| 19 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 20 | Guy Armstrong 's return to the team after a knee injury forced him out of last year 's competition has also been an essential part of the reformation of a new Scottish side . |
| 21 | She was out of awd Daisy and ah carried her out of this very byre on a sack and the snow was comin' down hard . |
| 22 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 23 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 24 | Interestingly enough , Laplace included it in only the first and second editions of his book The System of the World , and left it out of later editions ; perhaps he decided that it was a crazy idea . |
| 25 | All I can say is please thank ALL of those involved for all their efforts which got us out of one almighty jam . |
| 26 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 27 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |