Example sentences of "out [prep] a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 2 | Most of the events classified as severe could be interpreted as involving some kind of loss or threat of loss : finding out about a husband 's unfaithfulness , a life-threatening illness to someone close , or redundancy from a job held for many years . |
| 3 | I spotted several club professionals , who were clearly delighted to be out for a day 's entertainment at the expense of one of the manufacturers . |
| 4 | They held their automatic rifles across their midriffs , four friends out for a day 's sport . |
| 5 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 6 | If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it ! |
| 7 | An architect on holiday in the Scottish Highlands was out for an afternoon 's hill walking . |
| 8 | The girl and her family were ushered out through a judge 's exit before reporters were allowed into court . |
| 9 | You must tell them that the balance of the first year 's payment will be taken out through a banker 's order . |
| 10 | He could have been anyone or anything stepping out after a night 's wining and dining . |
| 11 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 12 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 13 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 14 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
| 15 | These farmers are obstinately trying , sometimes with help of subsidies , to make a living — a true case of trying to make an agricultural silk purse out of a sow 's ear . |
| 16 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 18 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 19 | Comes out of a chicken 's arse do n't you mean ? |
| 20 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 22 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 23 | Tim Roberts , defending , said both men bitterly regretted their actions ‘ which were born out of a moment 's folly ’ . |
| 24 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 25 | The case which is the subject of this note provides a useful insight into the analysis of an unfair dismissal claim which arises out of an employee 's refusal to accept new terms and either resignation followed by a constructive dismissal claim or dismissal consequent upon that refusal . |
| 26 | My hair comes out like a bird 's nest and my eyes look slitty . |
| 27 | She hauled him out like a conjuror 's rabbit out of a hat . |
| 28 | When she looked back towards the house , Carla 's face was at the window , peering out like a sailor 's wife watching for masts at the quayside . |
| 29 | The Doctor 's voice rang out like a ship 's bell in the darkness . |
| 30 | out into a man 's orbit . |