Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living out of a suitcase away from home and family has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmen , concluded a survey by the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 2 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 3 | After a hundred yards or so , the drive divided , leading in one direction towards a classroom block , in the other fanning out into a courtyard where cars were parked either side of the main entrance . |
| 4 | There 's somebody looking out of a window up there , looking a bit worried . |
| 5 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 6 | How about going out for a meal instead ? ’ |
| 7 | We 're going out in a minute anyway . |
| 8 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 9 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 10 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 11 | And while holidaymakers are whipped up to almost frenzied levels of opportunistic greed by guidebooks which insist that real travellers never pay the first price they are quoted , few have any prospect of coming out of a deal better than the merchant who initiated it . |
| 12 | But he could only watch , alarm contending with excitement and coming out about a nose ahead . |
| 13 | Sleeping out : Hartlepool people will be sleeping out for a night later this month to raise money for local projects to tackle homelessness . |