Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 2 | Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven . |
| 3 | This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record . |
| 4 | The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall . |
| 5 | Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English . |
| 6 | I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it . |
| 7 | He stood up and went over to an escritoire and took a piece of paper out of a drawer . |
| 8 | Harvey got a piece of canvas out of the front of the car and then pike took his overcoat off and they wrapped the coat into the canvas and strapped it up very tight on a long strap , the other end of which they fixed to the belt of Ralph pike 's overalls . |
| 9 | , Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has announced plans to take more than 3,000 acres of land out of the green belt in order to facilitate economic regeneration in the area . |
| 10 | Mick Feeney , a Barlinnie delegate , seconding the motion , said : ‘ The unit was of great benefit to the service because we could get the ringleaders of trouble out of the system for a while . |
| 11 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 12 | Er , fifteen er , schemes that were actually funded by the Department of Health out of a hundred and fifty bids , and the funding available , a hundred and fifty thousand pounds per year , er , up to the period er , ending thirty first of March ninety five . |
| 13 | Five minutes footage a day is good going and they use only 1 foot of film out of every 15 feet shot . |
| 14 | Purchase of Target out of a group of companies |
| 15 | He got one last bit of mileage out of the Hiss case . |
| 16 | She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show . |
| 17 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 18 | Dame Sirith has 397 lines of dialogue out of a total of 450 . |
| 19 | David took two quarter bottles of champagne out of the mini-bar , and collected two tooth mugs . |
| 20 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |
| 21 | Whether or not the decision was motivated by tenderness towards motorists is hard to tell , but there was certainly some logic in keeping offences of negligence out of the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine when a separate head of manslaughter by gross negligence already existed . |
| 22 | His book starts , for instance , by making a sort of sense out of a nonsense letter of Lear 's of 1862 and proceeds from there , through a rag-bag of examples , towards a theory of the Remainder which now becomes central rather than marginal , or at least just as central as the rules of Langue . |
| 23 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 24 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 25 | The two stars came into the picture with their tongues firmly in their cheeks , determined to wring every moment of fun out of the script . |
| 26 | ‘ He has been told that if there is another occasion he will attract an indefinite period of time out of the game . |
| 27 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 28 | Slipping free from his web , he began to snatch slips of paper out of the air . |
| 29 | The process of growth out of the Oedipus complex is therefore very complicated , and differs from one individual to another , depending on the balance of male and female factors in the biological constitution of the person 's body . |
| 30 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |