Example sentences of "out [prep] the [noun sg] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
| 2 | The discreet feelers that she put out during the drive back to Anduze met with monosyllabic replies that indicated , firmly but politely , that the matter was no concern of hers . |
| 3 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 4 | It is not unlike climbing out of the sea on to a slippery rock . |
| 5 | At one point something heavy fell off or out of the dashboard on to Bob 's foot and rolled away beneath the seat with a metallic ring . |
| 6 | Water , foam and clothes gushed out of the machine on to the floor . |
| 7 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 8 | Many of the Minoan sailing ships were probably small enough to drag out of the water on to a beach , but some seem to have been very large . |
| 9 | Cissie , without a word , lifted the baby out of the pram on to her lap , pulled up her jumper and put the baby to her breast . |
| 10 | ‘ The gods have no imagination , ’ he said , stepping out of the tub on to the towels spread on the rugs before his glass , and turning himself about beneath Langholme 's ministering hands . |
| 11 | Then some sea creatures developed lungs and the ability to breathe air and they moved out of the ocean on to dry terrain . |
| 12 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 13 | ‘ I can do in a day what she does in a week , ’ she said , shaking her duster out of the window on to the roses below . |
| 14 | So they jumped out of the window on to the fire escape — and kicked in an outside door to get back into the studio at Beacon Radio , Wolverhampton . |
| 15 | It was Aggie 's day to visit the outskirts , but as she looked out of the window on to the patch of grass that was welcoming the steady downpour , she said , half to herself , ‘ It 's a good job I 'm not forced to go out , ’ and a voice in her mind added , ‘ You need never go again if you do n't want to . ’ |
| 16 | Katherine gazed out of the window on to the snowy expanse of Thomas 's garden , the trees graceful in their white covering , the dim outlines of the vast central sculpture . |
| 17 | He had come into Merrill 's office ostensibly for paper-clips , and now he stood with his back towards her , staring out of the window on to the rain-swept traffic below . |
| 18 | Famous last words , she thought to herself , as she stepped out of the lift on to the second-floor landing of the luxury block of flats where she lived . |
| 19 | Thus an air of tremendous expectation hung in the autumn air as the runners filed out of the paddock down to the course , Arkle ridden as usual by Pat Taaffe and Mill House on this occasion by David Nicholson , as his usual partner Willie Robinson was injured . |
| 20 | He half-stumbled out of the room up to his bed and blessed , blessed sleep , where his dreams were a mixture of lobsters with evil intent towards the Prince of Wales , of Charles Dickens teaching him how to catch a pungar , and of Araminta , receding further and further into a boiling sea of mutton broth . |
| 21 | Kate knew it was no good resisting , so she meekly allowed him to shepherd her out of the flat down to the basement where he kept his car . |
| 22 | ‘ Ouch ! ’ said Lydia , falling in invisible indignity out of the stream on to her knees . |
| 23 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 24 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 25 | Someone fired a shot but the trees were too thick to see properly and the boars ran out of the forest on to the open plateau above . |