Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 2 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 3 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 4 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 5 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 6 | ‘ Richardson wants to drive you out of all your strips . |
| 7 | They do not seek to drive anyone out of the Church . |
| 8 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 9 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 10 | BRIAN MARWOOD , England winger turned Premier League reject , last night heaped gratitude on the man who has booted him out of Sheffield United . |
| 11 | THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it . |
| 12 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 13 | The signing , in the ZOO framework , of the World Monetary and Banking Assimilation Treaty ( WOMBAT ) has written them out of history . |
| 14 | A PAKISTANI widow is claiming a relative has cheated her out of £36,000 in cash and £20,000 worth of jewellery after her husband 's death . |
| 15 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 16 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 17 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
| 18 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 19 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 20 | No we tried to talk her out of . |
| 21 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
| 22 | ‘ Normally clients wo n't get the feeling they have had value for money unless they have had a disaster and the lawyer has got them out of it , ’ said , one of the senior partners in Biggart Baillie Gifford 's company and commercial department . |
| 23 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 24 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 25 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 27 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 28 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 29 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 30 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |