Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 2 | Listen , I 'll go in tomorrow and kick the shit out of the fellows who did it . ’ |
| 3 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 4 | ‘ To scare the shit out of the creeps opposing our offers to modernize their industries . ’ |
| 5 | You see , the point about a magnum is that it is metal psychology : it scares the shit out of the guy it is aimed at , it makes the guy who holds it feel really proud . ’ |
| 6 | During that period Lukic had little more than back passes to worry him ( AND SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF THE LEEDS FANS SEZ ME ) |
| 7 | Subsequently , with the sending out of the Seventy , they were to announce , ‘ The Kingdom of God has come near you ’ ( Luke 10:9 ) . |
| 8 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 9 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 10 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |
| 11 | We 'll be drawing the winner out of the hat on Friday night . |
| 12 | " Take either currants , mulberries , raspberries or strawberries , sprinkle them with a little rose-water ; press out the juice , and draw the milk out of the cow 's udder into it ; sweeten it with a little sugar , and beat it well with birchen twigs , till it froth up ; then strew over it a little fine beaten cinamon , and it will be an excellent mess . |
| 13 | I took the milk out of the fridge and poured some into my tea . |
| 14 | THE IRA planned to rip the heart out of the West End last night with a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 15 | The closure , part of £570 million in defence cuts , will rip the heart out of the island economy and that of neighbouring Weymouth and it will cost thousands of jobs . |
| 16 | The Castle looks like an obscene multi-fingered , clawed hand , trying to tear the heart out of the sky . |
| 17 | ‘ In taking the heart out of the Lothians , the Government is also severely prejudicing the ability of Edinburgh to compete on the European and world stage , ’ said the Convenor of Lothian Regional Council , Eric Milligan . |
| 18 | ‘ In taking the heart out of the Lothians , the Government is also severely prejudicing the ability of Edinburgh to compete on the European and world stage ’ , said the Convenor of Lothian Regional Council , Eric Milligan . |
| 19 | The local community was determined that the event should go ahead , despite the 500lb IRA bomb which blasted the heart out of the Co Londonderry town on Sunday morning . |
| 20 | Carrick 's other winner was Alistair Murphy who tore the heart out of the Old Bleach four skipped by George Adair . |
| 21 | In the Lancashire reply offspinner Peter Such took 4–38 , ripping the heart out of the innings with the scalps of Mike Atherton , Graham Lloyd , Wasim Akram and De Freitas . |
| 22 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 23 | Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief . |
| 24 | He would draw the money out of the bank this time . |
| 25 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 26 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 27 | You take some of the money out of the living assurance plan . |
| 28 | You ca n't take some of the money out of the plan ? |
| 29 | But at a meeting of Cheshire 's Police Committee yesterday , councillors made a unanimous decision to find half of the money out of the county council 's reserves . |
| 30 | But at a meeting of Cheshire 's Police Committee yesterday , councillors made a unanimous decision to find half of the money out of the county council 's reserves . |