Example sentences of "out from [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street .
2 And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space .
3 She pulled her hair out from over the patchcord , and passed her fingers through it .
4 The firecrackers were still exploding intermittently in the courtyard and occasional salvos of cannon fire boomed out from beyond the walls of the Imperial City .
5 Stevie Ray 's own ‘ Number One ’ was refretted so many times that its fingerboard flattened out from about an 8″ radius at the first fret to nearly 10″ around and above the octave .
6 Instructions had gone out from on high that the boat was not to be rocked , and Margaret Thatcher was as good as her word .
7 Where can Jenny have been , in the course of her adolescence , to be willing , if only out of nervousness , to accept that the Reds in Spain have been swept out from under the bed and up into mountain caves ?
8 If this is done , the tyres should be right on the tip and not half on the ground , otherwise if the glider does move , the tip will slide out from under the tyre and be freed .
9 I went over to the body nearest to me , the rubber soled Commando boots sticking out from under the blanket .
10 He ate and drank with relish , pointing out a fishing boat leaving Sligo harbour , remarking how Rosses point across the bay had safe bathing while here you could n't stand in the water without feeling the currents pushing the sand out from under your feet .
11 And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing .
12 The porter has a kilt poking out from under his jacket , and Macduff is stuck with wearing a raincoat on top of his dinner suit for the whole show .
13 Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers .
14 A blackbird with its beak gleaming golden against the white , scuttled out from under the rhododendron bushes making a flurry of snow slither off the broad leaves .
15 Tony inquired peeping out from under the bed .
16 But for all that the words are still coming out from under my fist , upward strokes and downward strokes proliferating like twig insects on the sheets of foolscap paper .
17 For the first time Hitler was not able to get out from under the responsibility ; for the first time the critical rumours are aimed straight at him .
18 Crawled out from under a stone more like .
19 Snakes that crawl out from under the stone of history
20 Not until they come down will people begin to crawl out from under their loads of debt .
21 Trent slid out from under the bush and took a deep breath .
22 Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile .
23 The man in white is thin and wiry with flashing black eyes and black hair sticking out from under the cap , wild looking .
24 The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull .
25 One minute I was a ploughman ; the next I was scrambling to get out from under an interrogator 's lamp .
26 He saw him pull a couple of rabbits out from under a bush so he must have had the boots too . ’
27 Did you get out from under ?
28 Said nothing , got out from under the blanket .
29 She eased herself out from under the duvet , reaching for her heavy wool man 's dressing gown and tying it firmly around her , crossed to the window .
30 Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder .
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