Example sentences of "[pron] out [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 2 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 3 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 4 | They watched him pull himself out beside a flowering clump of figwort , gripping one of the tough stems in his teeth , shake a shower of drops out of his fur and scutter into the alder bushes . |
| 5 | He moved with a lithe easy grace across the room and stretched himself out in an easy chair . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 7 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 8 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 9 | Why not the luxurious et cetera bath , and let me take you out to a decent dinner ? ’ |
| 10 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 11 | They were to remember where they came from : ‘ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm . ’ |
| 12 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 14 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 15 | He was the odd one out in a gifted family . |
| 16 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 17 | Kelly 's scream echoed silently within her as , like something out of a distant dream , the band played on . |
| 18 | The other women had n't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes . |
| 19 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 20 | Something out of an Italian movie . |
| 21 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 22 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 23 | Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur . |
| 24 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 25 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 26 | It brought them out into a grassy clearing by the lake , a shallow bay with a fringe of stony beach . |
| 27 | He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise . |
| 28 | In the Littlewoods Cup two goals by Derby 's McMinn disposed of West Bromwich Albion , and Manchester City 's misery continued when Coventry put them out with a 16th-minute goal from Regis after a Redmond error . |
| 29 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |