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Except in phrases

• Take the chicken out of the freezer.
• Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

Obsolete except in phrases

• He hasn't been well of late.
• And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:

• There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
• Though Washington does not officially recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.1932 September 30, Time:

• Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
• And ther with on his handes and on his knees he wente soo nyghe that he touched the holy vessel / and kyste hit / and anone he was hole / and thenne he sayd lord god I thanke the / for I am helyd of this sekenesse1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

• He seemed devoid of human feelings.
• But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful […]1731 August 28, Jonathan Swift, Letter:

• He was kindly treated by the people at Saco, and recovered of his wounds.1822, Jacob Bailey Moore, New Hampshire, volume 1, page 5:

• The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
• They wondred all, and marveylled sayinge amonge themselves: Loke, are not all these which speake off galile? And howe heare we every man his awne tongue wherein we were boren?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:

• Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)
• Anselm of Canterbury (after diocese)

• The invention was born of necessity.
• Faire knyght said Palomydes me semeth we haue assayed eyther other passyng sore / and yf hit may please the / I requyre the of thy knyghthode telle me thy name / Sir said the knyȝt to Palomydes / that is me loth to doo / for thou hast done me wronge.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

Following an intransitive verb

• It is said that she died of a broken heart.
• He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.2006, Joyce Carol Oates, The Female of the Species:

Following an adjective

• I am tired of all this nonsense.
• Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles’s offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would “kill” him, says a senior member.2010 September 23, Bagehot, The Economist:

Following a passive verb

• I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
• After a good while, the iewes toke cousell amonge themselves to kyll him. But their layinges awayte wer knowen of Saul.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:

• The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
• In Blood and Sand, meanwhile, Valentino repeatedly solicits the attention of women who have turned away from him.1994, Paul Coates, Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture, page 136:

Following an adjective

• It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
• When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed,—"It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us."1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

• Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
• The mallet is made of a hard heavy wood resembling ebony, is about twelve inches in length, and perhaps two in breadth, with a rounded handle at one end, and in shape is the exact counterpart of one of our four-sided razor-strops.1846 February 26, Herman Melville, chapter XIX, in Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life [Typee], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part I, page 164:

Directly following a noun

• She wore a dress of silk.
• Perhaps symbolically, Van Doesburg was building a house of straw: he died within a few months of completion, not in Meudon but in Davos, of a heart attack following a bout of asthma.2010 January 23, Simon Mawer, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

• I'll have a dozen of those apples, please.
• What a lot of nonsense!

• Germany's formal name is the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.

• I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
• As he swallowed the soup his heart warmed to this fool of a girl.1911, Katherine Mansfield, In a German Pension:

• I'm always thinking of you.
• [H]e spoke of his uncle with warm regard, was fond of talking of him […]1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

Following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)

• He told us the story of his journey to India.
• Recession and rising unemployment have put paid to most thoughts of further EU enlargement.2010 October 21, The Economist:

Following an adjective

• This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
• The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Following a number or other quantitive word

• Most of these apples are rotten.
• But as for me said sire Gareth I medle not of their maters therfore there is none of them that loueth me / And for I vnderstande they be murtherers of good knyghtes I lefte theyre company1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

Following a noun

• We want a larger slice of the cake.
• everyone, even the ladies of the village, called the dish tzigayner shmeklekh, or “gypsies' penises.”2005, Naomi Wolf, The Treehouse, page 58:

Or as a predicate after to be

• On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
• And the folysshe sayde to the wyse: geve us of youre oyle, for oure lampes goo out?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:

• He is a friend of mine.
• He is just what I should have liked a son of mine to be.1893, Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, section IV:

• He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
• The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:

• The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
• In a much-anticipated radio broadcast the Duke of Edinburgh said last night that Britain will be a grim place in the year 2000 […]1977 October 28, “(please specify the article title)”, in Peter Preston, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

• Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
• The breasts of young girls sometimes become tender at puberty in sympathy with the evolution of the sexual organs […]1933, Havelock Ellis, Psychology of Sex, volume 4:

• She had a profound distrust of the police.
• And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4::

• My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
• This fact becomes very noticeable when a cultivated tongue ceases to be used any longer by the educated, and is heard only from the mouths of the illiterate. The variations which spring up under such circumstances are easy of observation, because we have an ideal standard preserved by which to compare the present with the past.1879, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, History of the English Language, page 112:

• Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
• His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery:

• A young man of 20 has been paying interest at an exorbitant rate of 10%.
• She was a tall young girl of about twenty-two or three, holding herself erect and with fine dignity.1903, Frank Norris, The Pit, Doubleday, published 1924, page 4:

Considered incorrect by some

• It's not that big of a deal. (Standard form: It's not that big a deal.)
• Such hegemonic projects often appropriate certain local traditions and re-inscribe them as "national," while dismissing other traditions which pose too great of a threat to the reproduction of the existing socio-political order.1990, Mary Crain, “The Social Construction of National Identity in Highland Ecuador”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 61, number 1, page 43:

• Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
• For, sometimes of an afternoon when Miss Pupford has been reading the paper through her little gold eye-glass[…], she has become agitated, […]1861, Charles Dickens, “Tom Tiddler’s Ground. Chapter VI. Picking Up Miss Kimmeens.”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 242:

• I’ve not taken her out of a goodly long while.

• After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
• The cab driver's claim he was sleepwalking during the attack has already been supported by his wife of 37 years.2011 March 2, Grant McCabe, The Sun:

• I’ll be ready at ten of two
• What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.

• I’ll be ready at ten of
• Wednesday was more of the same. Out at 08:30, got to the office by quarter of, clients all day.2022 May 16, Ariel Levine, 09:20 from the start, in Giancarlo Esposito, director, Better Call Saul S6E6: Axe and Grind (TV series), spoken by Private Investigator (Lennie Loftin):