Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 2 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 3 | We 've bailed you out of two freakin' world wars , and you 're still whinin' about it . |
| 4 | Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over . |
| 5 | Knowledge of him was so slim that the magazine Private Eye even suggested mischievously that the Department of Energy computer might have mistakenly selected him instead of another man of the same name . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't put it past the old devil to have done it out of sheer bravado . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I understand that you have known him longest of all the family ? ’ |
| 8 | Oh my knee , it feels like I 've pulled it out of joint or something ! |
| 9 | that you have represented it out of all proportion to what it is , and you have frightened people unnecessarily . |
| 10 | He was curious about how she would react — had she just given it out of social politeness , or had she meant it ? |
| 11 | Years of hard training , injuries and arduous touring have taken him ahead of British brothers Martin and Graham Bell , but have brought him little remuneration so far . |
| 12 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 13 | Only Cup runs have kept them out of those positions so far . |
| 14 | You 've destroyed them out of sheer pettiness ! ’ |