Example sentences of "[noun sg] out [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 2 | She must be married to the young man next to me , who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands . |
| 3 | Fred rinsed the old tea out of a cup and poured some Scotch and tap water into it . |
| 4 | She appeared to be not in the least ill at ease sitting on an upturned box in a bare room and drinking tea out of a mug that she balanced on her knee . |
| 5 | Just knocked my tooth out with a hammer and chisel , that 's all . " |
| 6 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 7 | They wo n't need to see all of your data , but choose certain items to print out or type out in a way that can be understood by the non-linguist . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've cut my boss out like a cancer but I ca n't drive past where I used to work , ’ she says . |
| 9 | He picked a match out of an ashtray and cleaned his finger-nails . |
| 10 | But the real issue is where the power lies : and the mostly unsecured bondholders are close to the bottom of the pile with not much more chance of getting cash out in an insolvency than shareholders . |
| 11 | Like many others , he attended the founding meeting out of a conviction that ‘ something had to be done ’ . |
| 12 | And you ca n't get a big powerful sound out of a bass that 's fitted with 30–95 gauge strings , because it 's actually more of a tenor guitar . |
| 13 | Her left arm by her side , her right elbow out at an angle and her forearm shaking like a pneumatic drill . |
| 14 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
| 15 | He pulled the grey 's head out of a bush and gestured to Isabel to mount . |
| 16 | Forty two packs of six by five litres , you go across , you take a a sample out of a bag and if it 's low it 's okay , if it 's high they scrap the pallet . |
| 17 | After washing , squeeze water out with a towel and leave to dry naturally for about 15 minutes . |
| 18 | No , I do n't know Alf , I ca n't remember if he was the first goalkeeper ever to throw a ball out to a player but , er if you want to ring up , tell you what you want to do , you want to ring up if you 're around , between twelve and one , and discuss that with Pete Murray , and Tony Lockwood , for , when they have the sport back on Talkback , and er , that of course , is the specialist sportsperson 's hour , and er , they may be able to throw a bit of light on that . |
| 19 | ‘ You find you a 40 gallon drum , chop the top out with a hammer and cold chisel , turn it over and make four big holes with the pointed end of a pickaxe . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note that in a guidance booklet produced by the Royal College of Nursing , the assumption throughout is that two people will be lifting a person out of a chair or bed . |
| 21 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 22 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 23 | Jack let his breath out on a sigh and shook his head . |
| 24 | Pavel levers himself into his car , forcing movement out of a body that longs for sleep more than anything else . |
| 25 | She stubbed the cigarette out in an ashtray that had an enlightened statuette attached . |
| 26 | We thought that if it was only one tournament out of a Tour that was growing so fast it would not matter . |
| 27 | She gave him a Coke out of a fridge that held caviare , half-empty tins of sardines and water-chestnuts , and medicine bottles for the dogs . |
| 28 | To stop it from sucking because it dissolves too well It 's like you in there drinking drinking er coke out of a straw if you you suck enough It 'll all end up in your mouth . |
| 29 | POLICE are hunting a mugger who tipped a baby out of a pushchair as it was being pushed by a 64-year-old woman . |
| 30 | She pulled a shimmering gold evening dress out of a box and held it in front of her , gazing into the long mirror as if she loved the combination of woman and gown . |