Example sentences of "out [prep] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom he moved quickly between the racks and tables until he was crouched between two mannequins , looking out through their skirts at the scene in front of the inn . |
| 2 | Nicandra shrank away — she was not at all courageous about horses , especially when they were fidgeting threateningly and blowing out through their noses at the same time . |
| 3 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 4 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 5 | She was startled out of her wits by the clanging of a loud bell being rung over her head , and then some body shouting in the dormitory : ‘ Up ! |
| 6 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side . |
| 8 | Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel . |
| 9 | There are women who are being dragged out of their houses in the middle of the night to have forced abortion ! |
| 10 | FOR Captain Marvel read Captain Miracle : Bryan Robson , whom England had sadly written out of their plans for the World Cup qualifying match against Poland a week tomorrow , may be fit to play in Chorzow after all . |
| 11 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 12 | Beer drinkers predict more than half of the town 's 28 John Smith landlords will be out of their pubs by the end of the year . |
| 13 | ‘ Did anyone help you to get the cakes out of their containers for the judging ? ’ |
| 14 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 16 | Even the worms on the pavement , flooded out of their homes in the municipal flowerbeds , exude a slithery gentility . |
| 17 | Thousands of people have been forced to move out of their homes in the exclusive resort of Malibu and suburbs northwest of Los Angeles . |
| 18 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 19 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 20 | There poor Paddies in London even now , God love them , who have been driven out of their homes by the Proddies . |
| 21 | And two families in Legar Hill Park in Armagh were burned out of their homes after the outlawed Red Hand Commando group hurled firebombs into them . |
| 22 | ) And , having digested that , any Masons would have shot out of their seats at the beginning of the overture — threefold chords in a knocking rhythm . |
| 23 | Piggott and the other passengers were hurled out of their seats by the turbulence and the Piper PA34 pilot thought the plane had been hit . |
| 24 | They may have been scared out of their wits as the mob moved towards their hotels but they were not harmed . |
| 25 | At crossroads the gibbets provided plump carrion for the hungry crows and ravens ; landless men turned out of their fields as the great lords changed to tending sheep rather than raising crops . |
| 26 | The firm 's been in financial difficulties and moved out of its premises in the Brunel Centre last month . |
| 27 | She leaned across to pat his hand and her foam petticoat burst out of its confines under the table . |
| 28 | You have n't been out of my thoughts since the last time we made love . |
| 29 | I let go of the beam and dropped with bent legs so as to splash down softly and felt the breath rush out of my lungs from the iciness of the river . |
| 30 | Such issues grew out of my reflections upon the images of school which were built up incident by incident , interview by interview , comment by comment . |