Example sentences of "out of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
| 2 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 3 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 4 | Out of the married women sector , who accounted for about a third of abortions in 1980 , about 3% were because of Reason Four . |
| 5 | Tepilit is led by the askaris out of the small police station to a waiting van , which drives off down the track in a billowing cloud of dust . |
| 6 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 7 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 8 | Her humour is a weapon that has pole-vaulted her out of the solid folk-roots category , an alternative scene that would have kept her firmly away from the mainstream . |
| 9 | As you know Mr Mayor , we are inside the chamber , do n't believe in spending any more than is absolutely necessary in any part of any budget so rather than spend any extra money we are proposing an extra twenty thousand be taken out of the public conveniences budget . |
| 10 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 11 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 12 | Perhaps the two events were not unrelated : it is tempting to think of a Tudor entrepreneur seeing the bottom drop out of the wooden armaments market and so moving into lutes . |
| 13 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 14 | 60 hours of language improvement , and 91 on Language in Education were offered , out of an unspecified methods total . |