Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 2 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 3 | Daniel levered himself out of the sofa and stood up . |
| 4 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 5 | We recall that in the notebooks Dostoevsky has Raskolnikov reflect upon his crime and declare he had to commit it to achieve moral development and get himself out of the mess he was in . |
| 6 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ Denis barked back — and then , forcing himself out of the nightmare of his paralysis , he added : ‘ Not yet . ’ |
| 8 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 9 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 10 | The Major eased himself out of the saddle , slid heavily to the ground , and tied his horse to the inn 's signpost . |
| 11 | Now , flinching at the soreness in his thighs , he eased himself out of the saddle . |
| 12 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 13 | Whittingham joined Pompey four years ago after buying himself out of the Army for £450 . |
| 14 | As well take to kissing Bruce Davidson good-night , he told himself , and got himself out of the door on this thought . |
| 15 | Andrew had cut himself out of the discussion once more . |
| 16 | I told detectives that he had a pilot 's licence and could fly himself out of the country . |
| 17 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 18 | Watching Niall haul himself out of the water , she felt suddenly absurdly shy as , in one fluid movement , he bent to retrieve his own towel , draping it casually around his neck . |
| 19 | There is no choice really as Kevin pulls himself out of the water . |
| 20 | Put himself out of the reach of Dr Ali , the Twenty-fourthers and everything else in the school . |
| 21 | Will the criminal have to climb down from the roof ( in which case he ca n't take a lot with him ) , or can he go downstairs and let himself out of the house ? |
| 22 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 23 | The much-travelled Allison , 65 , coaching consultant and now caretaker-manager of Division One 's bottom club , immediately ruled himself out of the job full-time . |
| 24 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 25 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 26 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 27 | Another senior Democrat , Senator John " Jay " Rockefeller , ruled himself out of the contest on Aug. 7 . |
| 28 | In the opening sequence the Poet is so concerned with the Friend and his future existence that he seems to write himself out of the picture . |
| 29 | He listened before he let himself out of the cellar , but there still seemed to be nobody around ; Reynolds felt gritty and smeared , at an unhappy disadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation . |
| 30 | Fernando pulled himself out of the pool to sit on the edge to watch her . |