Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success .
2 Women would fall out of a helicopter , whereas men would n't … ’
3 Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck .
4 A dead body will fall out of the telephone
5 Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on .
6 we might see boats fall out of the sky too .
7 ‘ People and cars do n't fall out of the sky , ’ said Cardiff .
8 He says the load would stick at the end of the plane , making it stall , and it would fall out of the sky like a lift
9 The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily .
10 It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation .
11 When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards .
12 Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ .
13 I hope all the bits do n't fall out of the box .
14 As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish .
15 But you can not simply opt out of the issue altogether , no matter who you are : whatever choice you make in this area will have a meaning and give a signal .
16 But can we opt out of the EC ?
17 If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension .
18 About 1 in 10 has now followed this route over the country as a whole , and in the costly Southeast as many as 20 per cent may opt out of the NHS .
19 You may , however , opt out of the LGSS ; in these circumstances you are advised to seek independent advice with regard to any Personal Pension Plan you may wish to take out .
20 Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye .
21 I will steal out of the door unperceived .
22 So I could jump out of an aeroplane and fire a machine gun .
23 When it moves any models in its path are run over , sustaining a strength 7 hit unless they can jump out of the way .
24 If you must jump out of the loop , you should use UNTIL TRUE to " pop " the stack .
25 ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury .
26 Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls .
27 All the way to the station she asked it , Shall I jump out of the car at the next light and run ?
28 ‘ The facts that we were quarrelling , that you did jump out of the car and refused to get back in when I tried to persuade you .
29 And the lads used to go and pinch out of the girls ' bags .
30 They were punctual to a minute , so we did n't hang out of the window — anyway the view on the roadside was very constricted , as far as arriving people were concerned .
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