Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there is nothing to guarantee that the authorities will stick by the same decision rules : they could become so agitated by public concern over the build up of inflationary pressure that they could jettison their employment objective and opt for contractionary demand management policies . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked her to come and get me out of foster homes but she never did . |
| 3 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 4 | It is when the Great Detective makes a jump out of such ideas that he solves the baffling mystery , that he sees , to quote a famous example from Poe , that the best place to hide a letter is in a letter-rack . |
| 5 | By now Heseltine has probably got about as much mileage out of such occasions as he can reasonably expect . |
| 6 | Women on average spend only five years out of paid work when they are having children , although there are wide variations in this . |
| 7 | Now they run nine DC10s , each carrying seventy- four tons of fuel , taken out of civil use because they were too noisy ; they 're loaded and ready to go at any time . |
| 8 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 9 | ‘ Get out of that dress and we 'll go back to your flat — it will be far more comfortable than this dreary room for anything we want to say … or do . ’ |
| 10 | So Frith said , " Then come out of that hole and I will bless you instead of him . " |
| 11 | Like you know I had to think well what the hell am I going to do with her now , you know , and , you know , get her out of this mischief , and out of that mischief and you know , from bashing her baby brother up , and you know . |
| 12 | I would never have taken anything out of that book that you had put in because I would n't have known what it was about . |
| 13 | It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work . |
| 14 | And if you say to Mrs Smith , ‘ A lot of smut 's coming out of that chimney and we 're going to do something about it , fitting retroscrubbers or whatever , you know , the answer is , ’ then you will understand what you 're on about . |
| 15 | And she was so relieved to be out of that place that she ran after and even overtook him . |
| 16 | I 'm out of that car before it stops moving , and Des is behind me without even turning it off . |
| 17 | Barbara never knew I was there , anyone could go in and out of that house and she would never notice . |
| 18 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 19 | But the council say they have pledged to keep the homes out of private ownership unless it is absolutely necessary . |
| 20 | PARDON me if I do n't break down in tears at the plight of the parents who are having to take their children out of private schools because they can not afford the fees . |
| 21 | It is not usual for the advisers of the Crown to draw people out of important work when they have hardly had a chance to do what they have undertaken . |
| 22 | I have a Rule of Life ( No. 74 , actually ) which says that you can work your way out of most situations if you can give yourself enough thinking time . |
| 23 | And sort of , dead down to earth and everything and it showed you a clip out of National Velvet when she was twelve years old you know erm that with the horse in it and that ? |
| 24 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |
| 25 | APRIL 1992 IT 'S four months ago and Johnny , working hard keep up his ‘ financial adviser ’ image , stays out of touching distance as he and Fergie walk out in public during their visit to Phuket in Thailand |
| 26 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 27 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 28 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 29 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 30 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |