Example sentences of "out [prep] [pers pn] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library . |
| 2 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 3 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 4 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 5 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 6 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 7 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 8 | The Doctor , in top hat and frock coat , looked confidently out at me from the label as I pulled out the cork and took a sniff . |
| 9 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
| 10 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 11 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 12 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 13 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 14 | He peers out at us from the photograph on the front cover of his catalogue raisonné : all we see is his deadpan baby-face , hovering horizontal about a foot above the studio floor , the rest of his body is concealed nay , shrouded by one of his crinkly gesso ‘ achrome ’ paintings which is propped against the studio wall . |