Example sentences of "[pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why this is hell nor am I out of it . |
| 2 | Not , I out of the machine I think it is . |
| 3 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 4 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 5 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
| 6 | Sergeant Potter was elderly and looked like someone out of Dad 's Army . |
| 7 | ‘ She said she felt like someone out of Dynasty . |
| 8 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 9 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 10 | ‘ He said it was someone out of his past . |
| 11 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 12 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 13 | Almost apologetically Mr Humble explained he was n't the type of man to kick someone out of his home . |
| 14 | My advice to agencies : send someone out with a quid or so to buy a magazine before you advertise in it ; or better still , have those editorial folk over for a Gordon 's & Tonic . . . . |
| 15 | In the vicinity of a road bridge , which spanned the line near Ashton Moss South Junction , about 200 yards away to the south , the signalman at Ashton Moss North Junction box also became aware of someone out on the track whom he took to be trespassing . |
| 16 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 17 | ‘ Or you could throw someone out into the Connaught Tunnel . |
| 18 | there 's someone out in the woods ! |
| 19 | ‘ We are not going to put ourselves out for them . |
| 20 | We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull . |
| 21 | We talked and gradually came to a decision that was quite contrary to the one we had held when we hauled ourselves out of our clothes a half-hour before . |
| 22 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 23 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 24 | But now it 's up to us to lift ourselves out of it . ’ |
| 25 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 26 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 27 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 28 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 29 | I bet we burn ourselves out before the Sun ! |
| 30 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |