Example sentences of "unable [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | If there is any restriction on movement , however slight , of the spine , hips and lower limbs , the person may be unable to get out of the way of a dangerous moving object with sufficient speed to prevent mishap . |
2 | If they do n't , one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering . |
3 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
4 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
5 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
6 | Less obvious is the offence by those teachers who are unable to break out of a strict interpretation of their teaching role , that is , as purveyors of information and nothing else . |
7 | Before the Second World War , to be sure , it looked as if the Labour Party would be unable to break out of a minority role in British politics . |
8 | They move backward and forward between denial and anger and depression , unable to break out of the circle of despair by acceptance of what has happened . |