Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] [noun sg] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She held out for a mammoth ten seconds and then , weak where he was concerned , she could hold out no longer , and collapsed weakly , clingingly , against him . |
2 | Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ . |
3 | We are making fast progress till suddenly a black van pulls out of a lane twenty yards ahead , brakes , and spills a sackful of coppers out the back . |
4 | Out of a total 1,887 pupils excluded in all three categories last year , 164 ( 8.6% ) were black . |
5 | Lurid nonsense about somebody being pushed out of a window twenty years ago . |
6 | She says his records helped her out of a coma five years ago . |
7 | In late 1959 less than ten per cent of the expropriable land area had been touched , and only 6,000 out of a potential 150,000 beneficiaries had received their allocations . |
8 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who walked out of a hospital two weeks ago and has not been seen since . |
9 | The 29-year-old singer , who has set up his own charity The Platinum Trust since opting out of the limelight two years ago , told Best magazine : |
10 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
11 | Notts County will disagree with that after picking the ball out of the net 5 times . |
12 | In 1983 , more than 46,000 out of the total 114,000 homes — public and private — in Wigan were on housing benefit . |
13 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
14 | Last night Vale of White Horse councillors were unanimous in opposing the takoever that 's caused the biggest rumpus in local politics since the car firm MG pulled out of the area twelve years ago . |
15 | The three chief contenders for the leadership of the Socialist Party , when the ailing Andreas Papandreou hands it over , all tell you sensible things that would have got them drummed out of the party ten years ago . |
16 | It forced me out of the attic three times a day to discover my new surroundings and meet the local people . |
17 | Reader J J Stephens reproduced his 1966 letter to the editor , accusing Major Bourne-Arton of ‘ trying to make capital ’ out of the closure two years earlier of North Road railway workshops . |
18 | Belt it out of the ground thirty-five metres will be the ideal kick . |
19 | Because much of its crude is of a variety that is expensive to refine and bring to market , it is trying to lure back the foreigners who were kicked out of the business two decades ago . |
20 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
21 | I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning . |
22 | An experiment using silicic acid , and being carried out in a laboratory 5 metres away through a brick wall , affected the normal pattern of salt crystals being observed in Dr Reid 's laboratory . |
23 | If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’ |
24 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
25 | ‘ I treated my own father abominably and no sin in my whole life now seems to be so serious , ’ Lewis blurted out to a correspondent twenty-five years after A. J. Lewis 's demise . |
26 | They 'd lope out to a mesa two miles away and walk back . |
27 | It is a slight story , padded out to a mind-deadening 640 pages by the monotonous recital of the great redundant master plan itself . |
28 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |