Example sentences of "out [prep] [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton . |
2 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
3 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
4 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
5 | So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted . |
6 | Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment . |
7 | Were you out out of it at the time or what ? |
8 | She was going out with him at the beginning of this term |
9 | I 'm not going out with her at the moment . |
10 | ‘ I 'd find it embarrassing for Prince Charles to be out with us at the moment , ’ said Captain Barker . |
11 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
12 | Consisting of off-the-shelf commercial equipment that anyone might buy , it included the Sony video camera that was still signed out to him at the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1990 on a trumped-up passport charge . |
13 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |