Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun pl] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peripheral groups may be made up of employees or of workers bought in on a sub-contract basis . |
| 2 | In addition she was twice caught climbing out of windows and on one occasion got into her mother 's car and slashed the roof with a knife taken from the kitchen . |
| 3 | These children have deliberately tried to hurt their brothers and sisters with knives , pushing them out of windows or down stairs ( Rosenthal and Doherty 1984 ) . |
| 4 | It may be tempting to go into schemes that promise a way out of difficulties but on no account apply your all-or-nothing approach to financial risks . |
| 5 | Following Liberty Vallance he suffered a heart attack which forced him out of movies and into a career as a composer and painter , in the way that many Hollywood tough guys conceal a private sensitivity . |
| 6 | The Chethams ran out of heirs and in 1819 so did the Cottons , with the death of William Cotton . |
| 7 | At 17.23 I was sitting in Jake 'n' Suzi 's Unisex Salon , a tiny place that looked as though cockroaches 'd run out of corners and over your toes . |
| 8 | He do n't put any of his clothes away and if he 's looking for anything it 's all fling out of drawers and on the floor , he do n't care . |
| 9 | All that happened at Bourani was in the nature of a private masque ; and no doubt the passage was a hint to me that I should , both out of politeness and for my own pleasure , not poke my nose behind the scenes . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 11 | At the Kynoch family 's invitation , Mr D'Silva joined the board as chief executive with a mandate to move the company out of textiles and into the field he knew best medical devices . |
| 12 | Mr Major and his cabinet are in disarray and have evidently run out of ideas and of steam . |
| 13 | After several days of paperwork in Bali and with the help of Continental 's cargo agent , Putra , we got the engine box out of Customs and on a Bouraq Airlines flight to Kupang . |