Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] of the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the cockpit is likely to be used a lot while sailing in the trades and while in harbour , it seems a pity that the tiller should take up such a large amount of space , although when at rest it can be lifted out of the way . |
| 2 | However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time . |
| 3 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 4 | Good-humouredly , bundles are pushed out of the way ; babies and children accommodated . |
| 5 | The young child will feel that he is being pushed out of the way to make room for someone much more important . |
| 6 | First a cow is pushed out of the way by the trained elephants so that her calf can be safely roped and led away . |
| 7 | A safety catch must first be pushed out of the way before the lever can be raised to retract the undercarriage , but there is also a ‘ squat ’ switch arrangement to prevent accidental retraction while the weight of the aircraft is on its wheels . |
| 8 | The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 10 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 11 | I 've got out of the way , I 'm trying to do my accounts , I ca n't understand this new money can you ? |
| 12 | It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy . |
| 13 | ‘ If there is a particularly nasty piece of business to be got out of the way , a quick dose of this will bring it to a head quickly . |
| 14 | ‘ I know they need to protect their client 's confidentiality but there are certainly many companies I would not consider working for and that ought to be got out of the way early on . ’ |
| 15 | The first misconception to be got out of the way is that object-oriented Cobol is a new language with a spurious affinity to the ANSI ‘ 85 version . |
| 16 | The Bar examinations should , of course , be got out of the way before pupillage commences , for you can not do two things at once . |
| 17 | No matter what the feelings of the bereaved , the body has to be got out of the way , buried or burned , and much of the richest information from earlier societies comes from the importance accorded to that act . |
| 18 | Je t'aime : a different procedure , with the subject and object being got out of the way first , so that the long vowel of adoration can be savoured to the full . |
| 19 | Suspicions were got out of the way . |
| 20 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 21 | And of course as I say those those were around , but erm the reason that is all white , is that it was erm er when the cattle had been got out of the way , they er whacked a fair amount of of lime wash all over things er to er to kill any any nasties there . |
| 22 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |
| 23 | William Cooper , for example , suggested that for his contemporaries , ‘ the Experimental Novel had got to be brushed out of the way before we could get a proper hearing ’ ( in Rabinovitz 1967 : 7 ) , and C. P. Snow explained in 1958 that : |
| 24 | It swims , with its legs tucked out of the way alongside its flanks , by sinuous movements of its body and by beating its tail . |
| 25 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 26 | These can be wheeled out of the way when not needed . " |
| 27 | But imagine what it is to live in a country where there is no safety net , just a rubber mat to break your fall , and then even that is pulled out of the way . |
| 28 | Obstacles which prevent young people from using their talents at home must be swept out of the way , he said . |
| 29 | Second , the speed to go through an object before it is hit out of the way must be developed . |
| 30 | When the Second War came , the Gondola and Lifeboat were stored out of the way at Fleetwood Depot , but the Bandwagon continued unilluminated to advertise various war efforts . |