Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look Frank gave me eleven out of ten . |
| 2 | Taking a sip , she caught a glimpse of someone familiar out of the corner of her eye . |
| 3 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |
| 4 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 5 | This description does not tell us which 12 out of the specified 13 are being sold . |
| 6 | If you are king of a country in which six out of every ten people are Palestinians , and where Islamic fundamentalism is growing , you do not last long by siding with America against the man who is firing missiles into Tel Aviv . |
| 7 | Car production fell by 8 p.c. , reflecting sluggish demand , but still topped 2m vehicles of which three out of five were Peugeot . |
| 8 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 9 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 10 | She looked like a Cossack in jackboot-black sea boots , the skirt of her long dress looped up and tucked into the strap of a gold lamé handbag , the top half of her padded out by a fur-hooded anorak . |
| 11 | Still , I do n't suppose a high intelligence is one of her assets , and you have to give her ten out of ten for persistence . |
| 12 | Yet they were tricked out of lands by Daniel Boone and others and forced to take part in the ‘ Trail of Tears ’ , the enforced march from Kentucky and Tennessee to northern Oklahoma , during which 4,000 out of 16,000 Cherokees died . |
| 13 | The surprise is a thing called Distributed Access Control Manager ( DACM ) , a generic DCE ACL security manager meant to relieve users of having construct a defence of their own out of what DCE presents them with . |
| 14 | Erika had been to church before : with Omi , once on her own out of curiosity , and once with the F.G.Y. as a prelude to a discussion on Modern Superstitions . |
| 15 | The good business outcome of this policy for the pharmaceutical industry is evident in a recent survey in which four out of five general practitioners claimed to follow the hospital prescription on patient discharge . |
| 16 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 17 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 18 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |
| 19 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 20 | I 'll award you ten out of ten for trying . |
| 21 | ‘ Before you dash off , we 'd love to invite you both out to dinner . ’ |
| 22 | These days , saying energy makes me black out with exhaustion . |
| 23 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 24 | ‘ And if you manages to blow them all out at once you can make a wish , ’ said Carrie . |
| 25 | and they come round and they bring them all out to the front |
| 26 | ‘ A fil-thy temper — he has thrown them all out , he has thrown them all out of the window . ’ |
| 27 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 28 | FUNNY how summer brings them all out of the woodwork is n't it ? |
| 29 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 30 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |