Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun pl] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 2 | See we 've run out of buns cos you had one yesterday and that makes one er , there was two there |
| 3 | But here in this field , still more than in sharedealing , they must have a flair for bludgeoning money out of punters if they are to survive . |
| 4 | We use the same principle for getting money out of companies as we do getting products into them . |
| 5 | Pat : ‘ Well , there you are — Springsteen 's authenticity is as much constructed out of signs as anyone . ’ |
| 6 | There were two groups in East Africa who had a direct interest in discrediting Masai administration and suggesting that officials were ‘ soft ’ on the Masai : these were , most importantly , the white settlers who wanted Masai land for farming , and enthusiasts for wildlife conservation who wanted the Masai driven out of areas where their interests were believed to conflict with those of game . |
| 7 | The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old . |
| 8 | Adopt a system that alerts to you the fact that you are running out of forms before you actually do so ; put a note in the drawer ten forms from the bottom for this purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 10 | Indeed , BA would almost certainly have pulled out of negotiations if it had thought a referral was likely . |
| 11 | Matilda perched herself carefully on an upturned box and more out of politeness than anything else she took a slice of bread and margarine and started to eat it . |
| 12 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 13 | The university 's patenting and licensing experts give advice and students are allowed to drop out of courses while they pursue their business interest before returning to school . |
| 14 | Clearly , whatever system we have , councils will want to squeeze as much money out of payers as they can and they will justify this in the same tired way : preservation of jobs and services . |
| 15 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 16 | These collars give pigs a computer key to let them in and out of stalls where they can feed unmolested . |
| 17 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 18 | I ca n't keep three of you out of puddles if you 're walking |
| 19 | Unless their captor had a secret supply of them , Peter reckoned he would be out of smokes before they moved . |
| 20 | They see it as an indication that workers are moving out of jobs where they are no longer very efficient to areas where they are more productive . |
| 21 | Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone . |
| 22 | … the dwindling of the conscious individual personality , the focusing of thoughts and feelings in a common direction , the predominance of the affective side of the mind and of unconscious psychical life , the tendency to the immediate carrying out of intentions as they emerge … . |