Example sentences of "out of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last album just ran out of fun along the way . |
| 2 | Later , he would complain irritably about his silver-spooned Tory colleagues : ‘ These people have no idea what is like to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 3 | He complained about Tory colleagues : ‘ They do n't know what it is to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 4 | When hospitals increase throughput all that happens is that the purchaser runs out of money before the end of the year . |
| 5 | Only pupils in S4 , S5 and S6 are allowed out of school at lunchtime and no pupils are allowed out of school at the morning interval . |
| 6 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 7 | What usually happens is that the model runs out of steam during the half roll , and tumbles backwards . |
| 8 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 9 | It 's growing out of sync with the rest of service provision and service development , and this has all sorts of spin-offs . |
| 10 | Tim and I are just simply out of sync at the moment — I ca n't think how else to put it . |
| 11 | The ‘ Constantinian revolution ’ was far more than the sudden breaking out of peace over the church and demanded a drastic reconstruction of the framework of experience . |
| 12 | Out of wrestling with the angel , |
| 13 | She 'd been shaken rudely out of sleep by the sound of peremptory knocking on the back door of the farmhouse , at what felt like the crack of dawn . |
| 14 | This was the early-eighties and Britain was clawing its way out of recession on the back of a demand-led boom . |
| 15 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 16 | It surprised me , nevertheless , that in such a small place as Reine there existed a street so out of character with the rest . |
| 17 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 18 | It was as staggeringly out of character as the Pope reading Playboy . |
| 19 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 20 | Now that the necessity of continuing the line to the Cambrian is manifest to the promoters of the rest of the line , the town and neighbourhood of Bishop 's Castle , which took no notice of the question at first , has , not unnaturally perhaps , been left wholly out of consideration in the matter . |
| 21 | A limited number of surgeries are available each week out of term-time throughout the year . |
| 22 | But what Derry are worried about is any stipulation from the cricket authorities which would rule Smyth out of rugby for the month prior to the African trip . |
| 23 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 24 | Things go wrong when you have too few , or when one gets out of proportion to the rest . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's very exhausting hanging on by your arms , and Michael had a strength in his upper arms that was out of proportion to the rest of his body . |
| 26 | Margaret Thatcher managed to negotiate a system of rebates at the Fontainebleau Summit in 1984 , but the British contribution remains wholly out of proportion to the size of her economy . |
| 27 | Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed . |
| 28 | Mark Wait at Heffers in Cambridge commented , ‘ The work involved in collecting statistics can be quite out of proportion to the level of business being done . |
| 29 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 30 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |