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Example sentences of "was [adv] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm .
2	But then , at first glance , Vic was somewhat out of the ordinary .
3	But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control .
4	It was all out of the hole-in-the-wall this evening .
5	Steve was obviously out for the count .
6	Nevertheless , whilst a joint campaign with the Communist Party and other political organizations was entirely out of the question , the Labour leadership felt compelled to adjust its policy with regard to Spain .
7	I shaved and showered , clipping two seconds off the record , and was soon out on the highway heading for Faketown .
8	Much to my surprise I was soon out on the water like a regular Captain Pugwash .
9	But the emergency window on the left opened quite easily and I was soon out with the thought that a safe landing is one you can walk away from .
10	Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together .
11	Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall .
12	He was already out of the room .
13	By the time he reached the end of the yard Martin was already out of the car and was running up the steps to the house .
14	But he was already out of the car , ignoring her faltering explanation .
15	She was wasting her breath , she saw , for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door .
16	She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her .
17	Unlike nearly every microlight aircraft I 've flown to date , the power plant up front was not out of the Rotax stable .
18	Post-war governments in France and Italy , the most important states , were weak coalitions , short-lived and threatened by strong communist parties ; a Soviet invasion of continental Europe was not out of the question ; and Labour politicians disliked the Christian Democratic predominance on the Continent .
19	Despite the amputation , the indomitable ‘ Mac ’ was not out of the air for long .
20	Wilson 's reputation as a talent scout ensured that she was not out in the cold for long .
21	Albert Popple was always out on the allotment or in the Lamb and Flag in the mornings .
22	I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard .
23	Her arse was hardly out of the door when the Colonel turned on Betty .
24	The Grandstand presenter-turned-guru was hardly out of the headlines two years ago .
25	Tom was hardly out into the hallway when in burst Zach .
26	But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess — and by now she was totally out of the Palace 's control .
27	Joe was still out on the street at the other end of the bar , arm still raised , already way out of date .
28	Uncritical adherence was clearly out of the question by 1868 , as appears from various sober notes on the logical problems that he saw in Schopenhauer 's system .
29	He said his wife was probably out of the room for about fifteen or twenty minutes .
30	After cycling to various different parts of the village pretending to look for him , therefore , I returned and told the Germans that no one had seen my father ; he was probably out in the country on his bicycle but I had no idea where .