Example sentences of "[adv prt] of his [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there , Field , feted as a celebrity , and roundly fed up of his employer 's parsimony , began to build his own career . |
| 2 | He was a private ; he was waiting by a big car , probably for his officer to come out of his mistress 's apartment . |
| 3 | As he did so , some loose change fell out of his trouser 's pocket and rolled under the table . |
| 4 | He 'd relayed the news to Harry , hoping it would put his fickle sister out of his friend 's mind once and for all . |
| 5 | Mr Evans was flaming mad , not with Mrs Gotobed but with Hepzibah for ‘ doing him out of his rights ' . |
| 6 | He jumped out of his basket + walked proudly over to his dish . |
| 7 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
| 8 | As he walked home , he was very sad , + a tear rolled out of his eye + onto the pavement . |
| 9 | Weatherill , 71 , sold out of his family 's firm in 1970 when he decided to further his career in politics but will return once the election is over . |
| 10 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 11 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 12 | It wo n't do him no harm to be out of his mother 's apron-strings fer a bit longer . |
| 13 | At first fortune smiled on him : ‘ He was tumbled out of his mother 's womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge ’ , says his contemporary Anthony à Wood . |
| 14 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 15 | Thoroughly bewildered , and wondering why on earth Mrs McMahon was behaving so strangely , Ellie watched Feargal teasingly twitch the package out of his mother 's hands . |
| 16 | Luke nodded and , getting a red jewel box out of his jeans ' pocket , handed it to Alejandro just before a beautiful woman came out of the house . |
| 17 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 18 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |