Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 2 | Of course , we 'd have pushed them right out again . |
| 3 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 4 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |
| 5 | Warhurst said : ‘ Ray rang me right out of the blue at 5pm on Thursday afternoon to say the deal was back on again and would I come to Blackburn . |
| 6 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
| 7 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 8 | One took me rather out of my way , before turning at last , at right angles , up the hill and home ; but it was the main road and was lit . |
| 9 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 10 | But the educated kick them down out of sheer culture . |
| 11 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 12 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 13 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 14 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 15 | Younger bucks were wearing them inside out by this time . |
| 16 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 17 | Fortunately the London Union has been strong enough to keep them entirely out but these London houses , as soon as they get beyond the sphere of the … |
| 18 | I hardly know the woman , but she seems to know me inside out . |
| 19 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 20 | In the palace , in the castle , at the hunt ball and the country house men brayed like donkeys and women shrieked and swooped like owls : the middle classes made me fidgety with their concern — was I not out too late ? |
| 21 | The replacement rate is shown as 104% ; this rate is the proportion of your net income that will be ‘ replaced ’ by the benefit system if you lose your job ( or , for someone already out of work , the ratio of current income to expected net wage ) . |
| 22 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 23 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 24 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 25 | And we had to hoist ourselves up out of the water and then go and dance — it was dreadful . |
| 26 | Here are some : To get out of trouble To get someone else out of trouble To make us look better than we are Try to think of some more . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone else out late , too . |
| 28 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |
| 29 | For , while her pride was up in arms that plainly Ven would have preferred to take someone else out to dinner — had that ‘ someone else ’ been free — what was really getting to Fabia was nothing but common-or-garden , out-and-out jealousy . |
| 30 | To someone recently out from England village life in Burma seemed desperately poor . |