Example sentences of "out [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Queen fans were devastated when Barcelona — a Top Ten hit when first released five years ago — was controversially elbowed out as the Games 's theme song by Amigos Para Siempre ( Friends For Life ) .
2 ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen .
3 Ten minutes later a small party , including a highly suspicious private detective , made its way out through the tradesmen 's entrance , escorted by Auguste .
4 The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 .
5 The injustice of life stung her bitterly — Sylvester getting them Bones and co as if they were straight out of the champions ' parade at the Horse of the Year Show and not even knowing that some horses jumped and some did n't , and thinking that all weedy little Hoomey needed was motivation to become Seb Coe the second …
6 Smith does n't want to be out of the selectors ' minds at the start of the tour because he is desperate to improve on his overseas record for England .
7 One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote .
8 Clearly the phasing out of the serf-owners ' authority and of traditional dues did provide an immediate improvement in peasant conditions , and the opportunity to buy land increased peasant security .
9 Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back .
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11 He established a dummy Swiss company , Lake Resources Inc , through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers , right-wing American bigots , and the enormous profits out of the arms ' shipments to the Iranians , who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought .
12 It 's just a race , after all — if you 're any good , you can wave your arms about while pulling a horse 's back teeth out and keep yourself out of the stewards ' room .
13 This made nonsense out of the geologists ' expectation of a world-wide sequence of characteristic fossils , and was never taken up .
14 ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance .
15 She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs .
16 But stocks and shares have the potential of earning quite a high income for the holder , not only in terms of the dividends paid out of the firms ' profits , but also in terms of the capital gain from any increase in the shares ' prices .
17 Such value-judgments surely arise out of the critics ' disappointment at finding negative aspects in an otherwise positive projection , an all-too-human aspiration for avoiding reality which Leonard refuses to do , to his great cost .
18 But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control .
19 The transfer of sums out of the creditors ' total in the balance sheet does not , of itself , imply dishonesty and would not be an offence under the Theft Act 1968 , since any creditor able to prove the sum owing within the six year limitation period would be paid , regardless of the accounting treatment adopted .
20 The workers in gold spilled out of the Goldsmiths ' Bazaar and into the surrounding streets and alleyways .
21 The pension of £150 was to be paid out of the Goldsmiths ' endowment of £290 .
22 And the lads used to go and pinch out of the girls ' bags .
23 If you 're fishing an 18 on the river and missing bites do n't swop to one smaller ; you 'll only end up pulling that one out of the fishes ' mouths too .
24 The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits .
25 It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp .
26 One year , I remember , he gave us half an hour on John McEnroe being slung out of the Men 's Singles .
27 Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round .
28 BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Luke Perry had to throw a girl out of the men 's room at a Hollywood pizzeria after she followed him to ask for his autograph .
29 It must be added that they were the better team , had the outstanding individual in Gordon Strachan and deserved the victory procured by a touch of finesse which could have Vinny Jones drummed out of the cloggers ' union .
30 In her defence , Outram explained that the teaching had led quite naturally out of the children 's questions .
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