Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] out [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire .
2 I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night .
3 A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left .
4 A large sign swooped towards them out of the night , its message glowing luminously in the beam of the headlights .
5 At the side of the road , he raised an arm as if to hail a taxi , but it was the sleek black BMW they had travelled in the night before that came pulling towards them out of the traffic .
6 It came moaning towards them out of the blackness .
7 ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door .
8 And he ran past me out of the room .
9 Fear has driven many of them out of the job .
10 In the end Bartocci solved the problem by shooing both of them out of the office and leading Zen downstairs .
11 Richards 's share was rather larger , 93 to be precise , the fourteen overs yielding 106 runs as Richards hammered 21 fours and five sixes — one of them out of the ground — in all , for 189 not out off 170 balls .
12 Foster , frustrated by a number of near misses and a dropped catch , turned to take his anger out on the stumps , kicking two of them out of the ground .
13 I want the pair of you out of the office in ten minutes .
14 Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm .
15 Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist .
16 As he came towards her out of the darkness the inevitable shock of physical awareness swept over her , sharpened now by the experience they had just shared .
17 She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam .
18 Without comment , she marched past him out into the sunlight while she still could .
19 ‘ All you can do now , ’ she said , ‘ is knock both of mine out of the way . ’
20 ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin .
21 Everywhere she went in the flat , she seemed to catch sight of it out of the corner of her eye .
22 When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold .
23 I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard .
24 I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan .
25 With you out of the way I can have it anyway . ’
26 And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’
27 It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room .
28 She brushed past Claudia , and with a muttered goodnight swept Roman with her out of the flat .
29 Kathleen emerged from the cloakroom with her things just as he was walking past , and she went with him out of the door .
30 He motioned to Lissa and she caught his soundless urging and went with him out of the room .
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