Example sentences of "figure [vb pp] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny and Mortimer , watching from the bushes , started in surprise as a tall , lithe figure coalesced out of the darkness . |
| 2 | This was a figure plucked out of the air by the Commission who know that the scale of fraud is not adequately monitored . |
| 3 | Pouf , man , you 've let yourself be scared by a figure plucked out of the clouds . |
| 4 | She saw the short , powerful figure come out of the dark of the hall , to where she could examine his face in the light from the streetlamps . |
| 5 | She closed the door and dragged herself wearily up the stairs ; as she pushed open her bedroom door she screamed in fright when a dark figure materialised out of the gloom . |
| 6 | This is n't just a figure drawn out of the air unlike councillor , I can actually back it up because I 've got the detail of that budget . |
| 7 | ‘ Christ , look out ! ’ shouted Pearce as a figure blundered out of the elevator . |
| 8 | Earlier figures given out by the US Army in January said that 23 US soldiers had been killed ( later amended to 26 ) and 323 wounded . |