Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just appears to be just a fraction out of focus maybe , I do n't know . |
| 2 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 3 | Not a hair out of place . |
| 4 | Not a comma out of place . |
| 5 | He 's what they used to call an alternative comic , although that description is already a bit out of date . |
| 6 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 7 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
| 8 | ‘ The editor thought it was now a bit out of date . ’ |
| 9 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 10 | She is all style , all form , all impeccably dressed dandy and wit , with never a tear out of place . |
| 11 | The unnamed man , in his forties , was found unconscious by an ambulance crew beside his machine on the B6160 half a mile out of West Burton , near Skipton . |