Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands .
2 This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany .
3 Phil Silvers had made an institution for himself out of the rank of an army sergeant .
4 ‘ Although this circumstance continually brings an unwelcome number of new soldiers of fortune into the field and into competition with the already existing individual capitalists , it also reinforces the supremacy of capital itself , expands its base and enables it to recruit ever new forces for itself out of the substratum of society .
5 Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking .
6 I 'm not going to do it cos it 's full of of jugs and then it tips back on itself on to the on to the flat side .
7 Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back .
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