Example sentences of "they [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years !
2 And get them off of the streets .
3 We are not forcing them out of the NHS ; they will remain in the NHS , and the services will remain free at the point of delivery .
4 Had he conceived of a scheme to lead them out of the maze ?
5 The guests fell upon the centaurs and drove them out of the country , so they are now a rare sight indeed .
6 Communiqués issued recently by the Department of Antiquities confirm that some of these historic items are still in Iraq in the hands of merchants who are trying to smuggle them out of the country for huge sums of money .
7 You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again .
8 Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country .
9 I often clean them out of the church after the wedding .
10 And despite Robbie 's protest that his daughter might also scold if he brought home an unexpected extra guest , the Reverend Mr Taylor hustled them out of the church and towards the adjoining house .
11 Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church .
12 But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways .
13 Earnestly , Oz scooped them out of the basket and held them towards the woman .
14 It is also useful to remove all the adult leaves from waterlilies ( or indeed any lily-like aquatics ) before planting , as these give the plants buoyancy and can lift them out of the basket .
15 ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table .
16 United will by extra-motivated by the fact that we knocked them out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Robbo 's return .
17 Watford full-back Jason Drysdale aims to hit the champions with the final instalment of a miserable treble by knocking them out of the Coca-Cola Cup at Vicarage Road .
18 I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes .
19 The pages lie out flat on the desk when the cords are extended , so that it is possible to write the pages without taking them out of the binders .
20 The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons .
21 Pushing them out of the way , she hastened to the bed .
22 Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed …
23 Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way .
24 Instead of tripping over their shoes while doing quick changes , each chair had pockets where they could thrust them out of the way .
25 I tried everything , even hiring an off-duty castrato to hold them out of the way , but nothing worked .
26 Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it .
27 After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them .
28 and then you take your long end and you wind above covering the edge and overlapping and then the low , then covering the edge and overlapping , there and again you keep working your way up and down , a figure of eight until you get to the end of your bandage then tie away from the body in your reef knot , either you tuck your ends in or if that 's awkward you can just put a sticking plaster over the ends to get them out of the way like that , so just tuck the ends in and I do n't think your casualty 's going to need a sling for a little graze like that
29 The Lord Willington looked the sort of place into which dishonest rascals might put their inconvenient relations in order to get them out of the way : uncles with the DTs , incontinent aunts , senile grandads , and cousins who 'd been odd since they were born .
30 Move them out of the way . ’
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