Example sentences of "[adv] out [prep] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen . |
| 2 | The plane slipped easily down out of the night sky on to the Doha runway . |
| 3 | Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window . |
| 4 | In a reference to continuing reports that more Soviet weapons had been moved east of the Ural mountains and thus out of the treaty area , the UK Defence Secretary Tom King raised doubts about whether the treaty process was going forward with " the degree of control and accuracy that was intended " . |
| 5 | She tried to blink the red mist from her eyes , failed , and toppled backwards out of the image field . |
| 6 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 7 | Unlike nearly every microlight aircraft I 've flown to date , the power plant up front was not out of the Rotax stable . |
| 8 | A horse whinnied and reared ; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road ; Colberg rode up as hundreds of people — women , children , men — ran out of the woods along the riverbank upstream . |
| 9 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 10 | The constable apparently left the chamber at that , for half a minute later a cloaked figure came quickly out of the Garden Tower 's entrance and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 11 | Lift your thumbs and place them a little further out along the brow bone and repeat the pressure . |
| 12 | ‘ I was enormously happier once out of the teaching profession ’ , she confesses , ‘ but grateful now for pension rights ’ . |
| 13 | Twice as many men as women felt that it should be possible to save more out of the housekeeping allowance . |
| 14 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 15 | Her office , situated off the corridor leading directly out of the reception area , was spacious and subtly feminine . |
| 16 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 17 | Typical English , thought Pamela , their first day and straight out into the midday sun . |
| 18 | I could come home from work have some dinner and change and go straight out to the hospital part of all this week . |
| 19 | A plain black backcloth , a plain black piano and — la pièce de résistance — a huge mock wooden dresser straight out of the transformation scene in Cinderella . |
| 20 | ‘ Clean old job he made of it , straight out of the drill book ! ’ |
| 21 | In April the Accounting Standards Board proposed that provisions for future losses and reorganisation costs after an acquisition will no longer be allowed to be taken straight out of the balance sheet of the purchaser 's accounts , without passing through its profit and loss account . |
| 22 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 23 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 24 | Gus , who in real life had black finger-ends cross-hatched like a file and no nails to speak of , smiled benignly out from the rain storm , his hair carefully combed , hands hidden under the counter . |
| 25 | Although this is largely a question of over-priced business lunches , clearly out of the price range of most students , it is imperative that the ‘ professionals of the future ’ are not excluded and are allowed to establish early formative contracts . |
| 26 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 27 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 28 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 29 | A plainclothes policeman got leisurely out of the panda car and walked across the road to them . |
| 30 | He smiled at all of us , nodding courteously to Lady Beatrice , then with his silent monks around him , walked wearily out of the guest house . |