Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parry has turned down an offer to play in the World Matchplay and with it , an automatic £12,500 reward , and has also decided to pull out of a couple of rich Japanese tournaments , so that he can play again next week in the BMW International . |
| 2 | we have joined with other organisations and persuaded the World Bank to pull out of a number of projects that threaten to destroy forests . |
| 3 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 4 | Pilot David Moore , 47 , of Downend Horsley , Glos , was flying too low to pull out of a loop in front of horrified crowds , the South Manchester coroner heard . |
| 5 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 6 | The incident happened when the American star threatened to pull out of a rain-drenched open-air concert in Taiwan . |
| 7 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 8 | THE Ulster Unionists were having urgent talks with the US Consulate in Belfast today before deciding whether to pull out of a meeting with prominent Irish-Americans . |
| 9 | Candidates in wrangle over training funds Darlington training groups could be forced to pull out of a government scheme because of a lack of funds , the town 's Labour 's candidate predicted this week . |
| 10 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 11 | It was wonderful to feel again , to let herself go with it , to water-ski blindfold , to jump out of a plane and take a chance on the ripcord . |
| 12 | Dot wondered why it was braver to jump out of a plane than to lose two fingers in a factory . |
| 13 | Clare 's ambitions are to jump out of a plane ( with a parachute ) and , she says , to be in a Rentokil publication ! |
| 14 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 15 | Della Grice , a service controller at Hygiene Bristol recently wanted to jump out of an aeroplane , a strange idea , thought other branch members particularly as now she is only 4′ 6″ ! |
| 16 | ‘ Is it harmful to come out of a temperature as high as 76 degrees after working twelve hours , into a cold atmosphere ? ’ |
| 17 | I do n't want to come out of a theatre feeling disturbed and offended . ’ |
| 18 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 19 | The Margaret Pyke Centre need volunteers for tests to find out of a diaphragm used with spermicide is more effective . |
| 20 | Although rather overshadowed by the heroin ‘ problem ’ which soon emerged , this committee was able to continue its focus on young solvent users and obtained funding for a full-time counsellor to work out of a Council of Voluntary Service office . |
| 21 | ‘ One — ’ he cocked a thumb ‘ — when you 're trying to creep out of a castle no one is asleep . |
| 22 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 23 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 24 | A British walker survived for seven days without food , save for a few prunes she managed to scavenge out of a dustbin , while lost in New Zealand 's rugged Taparua mountain range . |
| 25 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 26 | It was the practice to walk out of a Sunday with the braided leather belt showing just below your waistcoat . |
| 27 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 28 | PERSISTENT shoplifter Anthony Thompson tried to walk out of a clothes store with £370 worth of clothing . |
| 29 | She dragged on her cigarette , listening for any movement from her husband behind her , and jumped as he walked round to stare out of a window . |
| 30 | Most players would prefer a chip shot from grass rather than having to play out of a bunker . |