Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His situation was not unlike Forester 's in that he was cold , sleeping badly and eating out of tins warmed on a small portable stove . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry to disappoint prospective galactic tourists , but this scenario does n't work : If you jump into a black hole , you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence . |
| 3 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Such rigidities can be observed in organizations and institutions as well as whole cultures : the small , traditional engineering or textile firm which fails to adapt to the market and goes out of business ; the political party caught between renewal and betrayal ; the institution so deeply set in its ways that it is hardly aware of them . |
| 5 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 6 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 7 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 8 | She turned the light on and got out of bed . |
| 9 | She put the phone down and got out of bed . |
| 10 | Conway looked at his clock and got out of bed . |
| 11 | She switched on the light and got out of bed . |
| 12 | ‘ I had a nightmare ! ’ she said quickly , and got out of bed , padding barefoot to the door . |
| 13 | He tripped and fell , scrambled to his feet and sprinted out of reach . |
| 14 | And for Richardson , the best of times is not at one in the morning when he has suddenly awoken and jumped out of bed . |
| 15 | If local authorities and councillors had wasted the money in the way that many of us believe the Government have done , they would have been surcharged and hounded out of office . |
| 16 | As a young schoolgirl I had always wanted to do something different and to work out of doors , but as I progressed along the educational road these objectives had somehow receded to be overtaken by the more accepted priorities of passing exams and going to university . |
| 17 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
| 18 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 19 | Gluing large surfaces can be difficult because the pieces tend to aquaplane and squidge out of position , so screw them first . |
| 20 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 21 | He stated that the conspiracy was " planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood " — itself controlled by " Russian Jewry " — by " people called Greenberg and Weisberg " . |
| 22 | He took off , flying low and keeping out of sight , tilting quickly up above a treeline to check what he had seen and then tipping out of sight again . |
| 23 | Is not the difficulty that the Home Secretary is incapable of keeping in prison those people who should be and keeping out of prison those things which should not be ? |
| 24 | Toyota 's Crown Majesta will incorporate new hermetically sealed lead batteries , which eliminate the need for regular checking and topping up of water levels . |
| 25 | Dave , an electrical technician at Dimlington , was Commonwealth champion at Edinburgh in 1986 , and came out of semi-retirement to capture a bronze medal at the recent AAA 's championships . |
| 26 | I thought you were supposed to be low and submissive and made out of Adam 's rib , and you were n't supposed to leave the house excessively . |
| 27 | Perhaps , with significant sums of money being brought in to and made out of Ireland , it is time the Irish government did something about encouraging native film makers . |
| 28 | A tragically burly insect eight feet tall and made out of rust . |
| 29 | Suddenly sponsors appeared from everywhere , the sport thought it was Christmas and expanded out of control . |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't say it was a regular break-in , thief surprised and shoots out of panic . |