Example sentences of "something out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For me a classic pop song has a great hook , but you always leave something out for people to put in themselves , ’ says John . |
| 2 | We 're putting something out for public debate and we 've got to get it out now . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'll knock something out for you . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , then , ’ he said smugly , ‘ it 's just as well that I have worked something out for you , is n't it ? |
| 5 | Listen , I need you to check something out for me . |
| 6 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 7 | I promised him I would n't involve anyone official until I 've … sorted something out for him . ’ |
| 8 | When will you have sorted this something out for him ? ’ |
| 9 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 10 | He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper . |
| 11 | She 'll sort something out for me . |
| 12 | Erm , but , he sorted something out for me , I , I said , cos of course now |
| 13 | I said I 'll work something out for you and erm I 'll be in touch with you next week |
| 14 | I 'm sure you 'll work something out with Ian , but Sophie will have to be very careful when it comes to choosing the right person to replace you . ’ |
| 15 | It must be very frustrating to try and sort something out with her ! |
| 16 | Coming back early from school one afternoon , she passed the dining-room window and saw her mother cutting something out on the table . |
| 17 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 18 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 19 | When you get back to your starting point , reward yourself with a cocktail in the Kurhaus , an enormous hotel with a magnificent salon like something out of Death in Venice . |
| 20 | The terrain here was more open , like something out of the Wild West , with deeply eroded crags and ravines . |
| 21 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 22 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | It 's like something out of a fairy story . |
| 26 | ‘ Hang on , ’ said Lee , taking something out of his pocket . |
| 27 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 29 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 30 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |