Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end , Durnin missed out for Oxford in the dying minutes , but it was new Sunderland player manager Terry Butcher 's night . |
| 2 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 3 | Another 500 East Germans came out through Hungary in the 24 hours to yesterday morning , bringing the total who have left since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 26,500 . |
| 4 | And now here she was , sitting meekly in the passenger-seat of his car , while he drove her out of London with the controlled aggression of a racing driver . |
| 5 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 6 | This , perhaps the most tragic of all goals seen at Wembley , sent the Cup out of England for the first and last time . |
| 7 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 8 | In the article she was at pains to point out why they had to stay out of England until the following April , ‘ not because of tax ’ , she insisted , ‘ but in case either of us drops dead , which would mean the company having to be broken up ’ . |
| 9 | The caves of Bétharram , a short way out of Lourdes on the main road to Pau , are not my sort of caves but I will at least mention them . |
| 10 | It was even harder the following day when he and MacMinimum rode north out of Waterford along the proposed route of the other railway , the Waterford & kilkenny . |
| 11 | We are the descendants of all those generations that emigrated out of Europe over the last three centuries to populate the emptier quarters of the earth . |
| 12 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 13 | They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People . |
| 14 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |
| 15 | At the final turn into the tailwind , eight miles from the finish , Curry still led but only by 10 seconds , and from here on in Boone pulled ahead taking 1.29 out of Curry over the final miles . |
| 16 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 17 | By killing two engineers working on a canal being dug to take water out of Punjab into the neighbouring state of Haryana , the terrorists have killed the project ; nobody dares dig any further . |
| 18 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 19 | The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 20 | erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 21 | He drove out of Sandwich via the only bridge across the Stour , cruised up the A256 to the crossroads outside Ramsgate where he had seen the Renault 18 disappear three weeks before . |
| 22 | On Feb. 4 ( the day before the Army began its push into Ein Rumaneh ) Aoun 's forces began advancing north out of Beirut towards the LF-controlled coastal village of Dbayeh , some 10 km from the centre of the capital . |
| 23 | The differences were observed and noted from journeys out of Nottingham via the main roads leading out of the centre of the city . |
| 24 | There is also a record of a Spanish ship carrying cloth out of Bristol in the 1460s , and it may not have been untypical , although undoubtedly English vessels were engaged in the Iberian trade . |
| 25 | Airacomet 44–22633 flew out of Edwards in the late 1940s , finally ending up on a target range along with some sister ‘ 59s . |
| 26 | They drove back out of Bourton in the gloomy still gusty dusk but even in that light the village sprawled around shallow stream criss-crossed with toy bridges had an undeniable if rather practised charm . |
| 27 | Going south out of Épernay into the so-called Cubry valley , the vineyards of Pierry , Moussy and Vinay have south and south-east facing aspects , while across the valley towards Vaudancourt and Chavot they again face north , yet like those in the Montagne , seem to thrive . |
| 28 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 29 | Sir Drefaldwyn an 0-8-0 superheated tank tender engine storms up Golfa Bank just out of Welshpool with the final service of the day the 17.10 to Llanfair . |
| 30 | On Saturday , the clowns troop out of Butlins for the high point of the convention — the grand parade through the town on foot , stilts or in any number of clown cars — Volks-wagen Beetles mostly , one with four reindeer perched on its bumper , another with wooden hands in place of windscreen wipers . |