Example sentences of "not break [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 3 | There is person A , who seems to be strangely in the power of person B , and though he is deriving no visible benefit from the relationship , can not break out of it . |
| 4 | The reason unforgiving strategies do n't do very well is that they ca n't break out of runs of mutual recrimination , even when their opponent is ‘ remorseful ’ . |
| 5 | There 's nothing that drastically bad in behaving that way , but you 've let it become a habit , one that you ca n't break out of very easily . |