Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] out of 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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She 's elderly and hardly ever puts her nose out of the front door . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ( 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 . ) |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Something 's snaked its way out of the Spanish Civil War — from fifty years ago — to wrap itself round our throats . ’ |
19 | Suddenly , she was fighting her way out of the hot embrace , pushing at his hard shoulders , her swollen lips muttering , ‘ No ! |
20 | MILLWALL player-manager Mick McCarthy blundered his side out of the Anglo-Italian Cup last night . |
21 | I was paralysed on the canalside , mid pen stroke , sketching the boat for the skipper , then running towards the stern where the young man was swimming for his life out of the narrowing gap . |
22 | In the Renaissance the word had implied that God had chosen certain laws for his world out of the possible range , like the founder of a Greek city-state deciding upon certain laws rather than others . |
23 | He stuck his arm out of the open side of the jeep and stamped a big boot on the brake . |
24 | The God of this mountain is the God who saved only Noah and his family out of the whole world . |
25 | Who 's your favourite out of the two ? |
26 | So anything you can do to keep your home out of the official statistics really could be a matter of life or death . |
27 | You can choose between a vast selection of bars , all with English or English speaking staff , and take your pick out of the 6 or 7 nightclubs that raise the roof until the small hours . |
28 | Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you . |
29 | That 's your share out of the first pizza |
30 | Well , we 've got somehow to think our way out of the current difficulties . |