Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it
2 ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’
3 In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to .
4 We 've put blood , sweat and tears into this campaign and now you 're dismissing it out of hand ! ’
5 Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you .
6 Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah !
7 There 's a simple message from today 's Council , if you vote Tory , you 're voting yourself out of work .
8 When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map .
9 The work should be planned carefully , however , to ensure that the pupils are getting something out of it as well .
10 Interviewed in the trade union newspaper Trud , Pavlov claimed that ( unnamed ) banks in Switzerland , Austria and Canada had co-operated with non-governmental Soviet organizations to buy large-denomination rouble notes in massive quantities on the black market , and had been smuggling them out of the country .
11 He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking .
12 ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others .
13 Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off .
14 I think probably that is at completely the other end of the spectrum , and would be stifling the natural growth in North Yorkshire and what you would be doing then is is acting against the erm the inhab the existing inhabitant of North Yorkshire because you would probably be forcing them out of their county .
15 But to present the ‘ regions of application ’ model as our only version of the curriculum in our prospectus would be to put us out of business .
16 Erm well I , I do n't know quite what erm they 'll be teaching you out of in your er abnormal course but erm er I do find the , the the sort of current generation of American textbooks quite erm
17 So I said , Screw this — I 'm getting us out of here .
18 Well it 's , it 's gon na be very late there , you 'll be getting her out of bed if you 're not careful I know she says it does n't mind , she , she does n't mind it does n't matter , but oh dear , there 's a piece here in the newspaper did you see that ?
19 I said cos I shall phone the bank first thing Monday and I shall say right , he 's took the car so you can run to him for the money cos you 'll be getting none out of me .
20 They 'll be moving her out of Madame Tussauds next . ’
21 Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest .
22 I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power .
23 So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that .
24 I know I know I 'm taking it out of order but rather than wait until we get there , this has been raised , why ca n't we deal with it now ?
25 You might be talking yourself out of that five grand and into some trouble besides .
26 Dried flowers and potpourri are irresistible to small hands but could prove dangerous if sucked or swallowed , so our advice would be to move them out of harm 's way or to do without .
27 And he said oh I 've been taking it out of one of our own caravans , our own caravans he said .
28 They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car .
29 He said clients keen to move into Britain have had deals ‘ in the pipeline ’ but were delaying them out of concern about a Labour government 's competition policies or in the hope of further interest rate cuts .
30 Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case .
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