Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day .
2 This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes .
3 Both knew it would not end with tricking information out of the Versorelli Institute .
4 On Forbes 's ‘ throne ’ by the VDUs sat the queen bee of admin , weaving order out of the potential chaos of paperwork .
5 It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge .
6 It is a very useful behaviour when trying to get to the bottom of things and when you need to tease information out of the other person .
7 First , transfer payments actually give money out to the poor .
8 In broad terms , the law constructs liability out of the lesser crime which D was committing , and which happened to cause death .
9 No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing .
10 Darwin discovered a new species of the rhea , the flightless bird of the pampas , and realized that the existence of two closely related species in the same area made nonsense out of the old idea of perfect adaptation .
11 But they 're not hip-hop messiahs come to lead a supposedly stagnating genre out of the dark ages .
12 These are clubs which get money out of the public purse in the form of rates relief . ’
13 The galloping horse raised dust out of the dried mud in the gateway to the wood , an overgrown piece of covert which was the delight of the hunt ; the path was barely wide enough , badly kept , branches low across it , dark after the bright sunlight on the heath .
14 Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates .
15 At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs .
16 It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable .
17 The sun had got his hat on , so I took time out from the deep and meaningful stuff and studied my reflection in the glass .
18 Fifth , it is well established that , if the Crown pays money out of the consolidated fund without authority , such money is ipso facto recoverable if it can be traced : see Auckland Harbour Board v. The King [ 1924 ] A.C. 318 .
19 Implementing the Taylor report means that Arsenal ( and West Ham , and Manchester United ) are by no means alone in potentially putting football out of the ordinary fan 's reach .
20 Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality .
21 It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye .
22 Prime Minister John Major had defended the government 's decision to take sterling out of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , saying that " there was no choice " , while Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont blamed the UK 's European partners , especially Germany , for the speculative turmoil in currency markets which had derailed sterling [ see pp. 39080-81 ] .
23 To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness .
24 In this way Ulthuan drains magic out of the known world and prevents the tide of magic overwhelming everything and turning it into a seething realm of Chaos .
25 To try to make sense out of the vast amount of raw material intercepted each day the NSA uses computers that are programmed to search for key ‘ trigger ’ words , names , and numbers amongst the hundreds of thousands of circuits being continuously analysed .
26 She swept dust out of the open doors and stood her brushes in glass jars of turps along the windowsill .
27 This stubborn insistence on truth is the only thing which lifts Christianity out of the common pool of completely personal , relativistic , subjective beliefs .
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