Example sentences of "out [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not really finding out about the uttermost regions of the hydrogen atom . |
| 2 | I had seen her face before , but only in silhouette , anonymous , as she spoke out about the inhuman conditions of political prisoners in Morocco 's forgotten dungeons . |
| 3 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 4 | Watch out for the extra costs of low rate mortgages |
| 5 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 6 | When next buying your petfood , look out for the special tins of Kit-e-Kat and Pal and pick up a Whiskas or Chum 1990 calendar . |
| 7 | What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time . |
| 8 | On trees , in areas free from heavy air pollution , look out for the wispy tufts of the beard lichens Usnea spp . |
| 9 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 10 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 11 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 12 | I slipped out through the double gates of the burial ground to the Horse Fair , and we crept into the loft over the stable there . |
| 13 | Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts . |
| 14 | He went to the window , where the daylight was already fading , and looked out between the vertical louvres of the blind . |
| 15 | A third animal , which was a small , short-legged creature , weaved out between the prancing legs of his companions , barking in a high-pitched voice . |
| 16 | When he opened the door for her she stepped out towards the dark stairs of the barn , her mind still in the bright , airy room , and at the top of the steps she suddenly swayed giddily , pitching towards the stairs . |
| 17 | The road from Bayonne leads right out past the prolonged installations of the port to the end of the estuary , at La Barre . |
| 18 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 19 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 20 | The whole afternoon was spent meandering in and out of the welcoming homes of Miss Kerr 's ageing contemporaries . |
| 21 | What of Juhel of Dol and his careful and simian plotting to keep his suffragans out of the grasping fingers of Tours ? |
| 22 | During a fortnight-long project , 6,000 volunteers found that 13 out of the 16 types of litter counted showed an increase on previous years . |
| 23 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 24 | Now you should be able to see that playing Pentatonic scales in thirds actually produces a situation where four out of the five notes of the scale produce perfect 4th intervals . |
| 25 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 26 | Their proclaimed wish to ‘ return to real work ’ is a contradiction , for it denies their own political scramblings to move out of the grinding realities of shift work . |
| 27 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |
| 28 | In the ant 's case , construction costs are further reduced by building the nest out of the living bodies of workers . |
| 29 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 30 | What is well documented is that any attempt to prepare enquiry and discovery activities based on the pupil 's own interests and starting points will most frequently and helpfully lead to thematic work , breaking out of the narrow specialisms of the traditional timetable . |