Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 2 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 3 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |
| 4 | Warhurst said : ‘ Ray rang me right out of the blue at 5pm on Thursday afternoon to say the deal was back on again and would I come to Blackburn . |
| 5 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
| 6 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 7 | One took me rather out of my way , before turning at last , at right angles , up the hill and home ; but it was the main road and was lit . |
| 8 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 9 | But the educated kick them down out of sheer culture . |
| 10 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 11 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Younger bucks were wearing them inside out by this time . |
| 13 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 14 | The replacement rate is shown as 104% ; this rate is the proportion of your net income that will be ‘ replaced ’ by the benefit system if you lose your job ( or , for someone already out of work , the ratio of current income to expected net wage ) . |
| 15 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 16 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 17 | And we had to hoist ourselves up out of the water and then go and dance — it was dreadful . |
| 18 | Here are some : To get out of trouble To get someone else out of trouble To make us look better than we are Try to think of some more . |
| 19 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |
| 20 | For , while her pride was up in arms that plainly Ven would have preferred to take someone else out to dinner — had that ‘ someone else ’ been free — what was really getting to Fabia was nothing but common-or-garden , out-and-out jealousy . |
| 21 | To someone recently out from England village life in Burma seemed desperately poor . |
| 22 | Only when that was done , and she had put them away out of sight , did she begin to wonder what her next move would be . |
| 23 | and the wind blows them away out of his hand , so erm |
| 24 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
| 25 | Instead , it is argued that they must be " impelled towards them not out of fear and guilt but because of a positive desire to build a better life for students , themselves and other members of society . |
| 26 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 27 | His hands closed around her waist , and without effort he lifted her on to the poolside , and flipped himself easily out beside her . |
| 28 | There was a man in a dark overcoat and gloves standing by , apparently talking to somebody just out of sight . |
| 29 | Rhodri Parry thrust himself stiffly out of his chair . |
| 30 | Keith pushes himself up out of the chair . |