Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] out of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 2 | As the raiders then slipped away across the airfield , an undamaged aircraft loomed out of the darkness . |
| 3 | Although flying fish leap out of the water they do not porpoise but glide , using their pectoral fins as aerodynamic surfaces . |
| 4 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 5 | Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice . |
| 6 | The fish jumped out of the tank on a few occasions , landing on the carpet , but was always returned to the tank in time . |
| 7 | Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere . |
| 8 | Only three people got out of the train . |
| 9 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 10 | When people came out of the factory in the evening their faces looked white and ill . |
| 11 | ‘ People came out of the theatre and were shaking their fists at us , ’ said Ken . |
| 12 | People came out of the Underground and , leaning at odd angles to meet the wind , hurried home from work by the inner streets . |
| 13 | Some more people came out of the house and got into the other car , and both cars drove away . |
| 14 | People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery . |
| 15 | Eventually , he was rewarded by the sight of Inspector Sammy Pike heading out of the library and off towards the gentlemen 's cloakroom . |
| 16 | People going out of the crush for a breather and intimate talk away from the throng could linger without the girls needing the pretty shawls they had brought out to cover their bare arms . |
| 17 | In section 1 of two hundred metres of road we have counted over twenty six accidents , people coming out of the drive , parking cars and this kind of thing erm in the last five years . |
| 18 | Seeing all those people coming out of the pub to watch me was fantastic , ’ says Brian . |
| 19 | There are also a number of traffic put into er slow down traffic , being seen in many cases to be used as a target practice for people coming out of the pub on Saturday night . |
| 20 | ‘ People coming out of the forest … going into the forest ? |
| 21 | Yes I 've had one or two upset people go out of the door I must admit . |
| 22 | Given that it is good for many people to get out of the home and meet other people at work , and that it is crucially important not to leave re-entry into the labour market until the person 's children have grown up , these disregard rules need to be reversed as soon as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 24 | Devlin said , ‘ I suppose that thing makes people get out of the way fast ? ’ |
| 25 | Who knows how much of the physical damage done to property and people arises out of the resentment and frustration smouldering on from school-days ? ( see Hargreaves , 1967 , and Lacey , 1970 , for accounts of the ‘ D-stream subculture ’ in secondary schools ) . |
| 26 | Some people travelled out of the city to outlying towns and villages in search of provisions , plundering the general stores of Kilsyth and Kilmaurs , Bargeddie , Stepps , Drymen and wherever available transport would take them . |
| 27 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I will never get it clean ! ’ ran through her mind , but already there was worse to witness for a plate of spinach was already spattered on the tiles of the fireplace and a bowl of zucchini sailed out of the window . |
| 29 | Frantic sheep ran out of the way . |
| 30 | She bumped into Cal coming out of the kitchen and they started arguing over who should make the tea . |