Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of the Under-21 squad — Forbes Johnson of Falkirk and Craig Burley of Chelsea — have had to pull out of next week 's game against Malta at Tannadice . |
| 2 | Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again . |
| 3 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 4 | The Scot who holed the winning putt in the match at The Belfry in 1985 laughed off rumours that he would need to pull out of this year 's match . |
| 5 | It was a marvellous triumph for Price and his caddie Jeff Medlen , who was loaned out last year because Nick had to pull out of this tournament — and he carried the bag of winner John Daly . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales is to pull out of top-grade polo severing his sporting links with Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 7 | The documentary hinted that several wealthy Arab owners were threatening to pull out of British racing and take their horses abroad unless prize money went up . |
| 8 | As Clinton went from strength to strength , Bush failed to struggle out of that image of being weak . |
| 9 | This may explain its reluctance to come out of four wheel drive . |
| 10 | A diminishing few of us will continue to come out of sheer love but many will not , especially the young . |
| 11 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S athletics selectors were slammed yesterday after persuading Kriss Akabusi to come out of international retirement for one final fling . |
| 13 | Only one good thing to come out of such cold — it kept the bugs from biting . |
| 14 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 15 | That would have to , that would have to come out of any kind of interview with workers in those other groups really . |
| 16 | Expecting little good to come out of any country even partially populated by non-Muslims , Ibn Battuta had few expectations of India . |
| 17 | But BET has the in-depth strength to come out of this recession as a business toughened by adversity . |
| 18 | Unofficially , therefore , I am anxious to assist her — and Lord Dacre , I may add — to come out of this coil in the best possible way . ’ |
| 19 | What he really needed to come out of this marriage smelling of roses was a lucky accident . |
| 20 | AT1 : ‘ I did wonder what was going to come out of this review . ’ |
| 21 | The relief enables an individual to sell out of one company and reinvest the proceeds in a new company . |
| 22 | The total sample was divided into six groups , and each group was asked to choose out of five repayment arrangements for a particular loan ; then , given more information about the terms of the loan , they were given the opportunity of changing their choice . |
| 23 | Still , what the song celebrates are ‘ hidden paths ’ , ‘ sudden tree[s] ’ , ‘ A new road on a secret gate ’ — things which seem to be or to lead out of this world . |
| 24 | Someone was singularly careless to allow him to walk out of that hospital in Holland . ’ |
| 25 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 26 | Never conceal a mistake , for mistakes kept in the dark tend to grow out of all proportion . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll have to grow out of that habit now you 're no longer an innocent . ’ |
| 28 | Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use , rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking . |
| 29 | Some present MPs think it has already " become all too easy to opt out of real responsibility at Westminster by immersion in constituency work " . |
| 30 | Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely . |