Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 2 | I put my head out of the rear door of the dining car and , looking forward , saw all the passengers climbing upwards into the sleeping cars , with porters following after with their bags . |
| 3 | I picked my book out of the sweet cicely still unread and made my way back to Claro . |
| 4 | The boredom , the sheer yuk of it swept over me as I pushed my way out of the sick smell of the phone box . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 6 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 7 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 8 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 9 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
| 10 | Motion made , and Question proposed , That a further sum not exceeding £1,680,076,000 be granted to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund to defray the charges that will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1992 for expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions , Christmas bonus payments to pensioners , pensions etc. , for disablement or death arising out of war or service in the armed forces after 2nd September 1939 and on sundry other services , on attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , severe disablement allowance , mobility allowance ; on pensions gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes ; on income support , transitional payment , child benefit , one parent benefit , family credit , and on the vaccine damage payment scheme . |
| 11 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 12 | I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented . |
| 13 | She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy . |
| 14 | She 's elderly and hardly ever puts her nose out of the front door . |
| 15 | The girl stuck her head out into the main office and called across the room . |
| 16 | She came to the window when he pressed the button on the entryphone , poking her head out of the lower half of the opened sash window , through dark brown curtains . |
| 17 | THE ELBOW was propped on a window sill as a woman stuck her head out through the open casement . |
| 18 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
| 19 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 20 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 21 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 22 | So it becomes very much more common with , among sort of lower middle classes , the people who are working their way out of the working classes . |
| 23 | ( Several delegates were heard to mutter , ‘ Surely that write-off/obsolescence figure was too low ’ , as they made their way out of the main meeting room . ) |
| 24 | SCOTLAND 's engineering sector is still resolutely clawing its way out of the recessionary pit , according to the latest quarterly review issued yesterday by Scottish Engineering , the employers ' organisation . |
| 25 | Something 's snaked its way out of the Spanish Civil War — from fifty years ago — to wrap itself round our throats . ’ |
| 26 | The rat could only go one way , burrowing its way out through the living flesh . ’ |
| 27 | By continuing on the diet plan the indiscretion will work its way out over the next day or two . |
| 28 | The cirque was made , it seems , even before the period of glaciation , by water finding its way out from the mass if of the Monte Perdido behind and undermining the cliffs , though it was the glacier , shreds only of which are left , that eventually cleared this gigantic bowl of its debris . |
| 29 | Suddenly , she was fighting her way out of the hot embrace , pushing at his hard shoulders , her swollen lips muttering , ‘ No ! |
| 30 | Stepping high in the light gravity and brandishing the bag before her , she ploughed her way out into the open air . |