Example sentences of "[noun sg] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I know how you must feel but I had to be sure you were n't another journalist out for a story . ’ |
2 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
3 | And between them both , you can , you could I mean you take a ten thousand pound out with a mortgage , mortgage , and you could end up paying what , twenty thousand , twenty four thousand back . |
4 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
5 | Stab the heel and they drip the blood out onto a piece of blotting paper and it dries and they send it to the laboratory and they punch it out and they examine it and they test it . |
6 | Blood out of a stone ! |
7 | Getting a story out of her is like getting blood out of a stone . ’ |
8 | It 's like getting blood out of a stone ! ’ |
9 | rebate now , yet they can not get blood out of a stone . |
10 | Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone ? |
11 | A Darlington pensioner : ‘ It 's like getting blood out of a stone . |
12 | you ca n't get blood out of a stone can you ? |
13 | She appeared to be not in the least ill at ease sitting on an upturned box in a bare room and drinking tea out of a mug that she balanced on her knee . |
14 | Fred rinsed the old tea out of a cup and poured some Scotch and tap water into it . |
15 | She must be married to the young man next to me , who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands . |
16 | In contrast Stanley 's usually made the inspired calculations of a good invitation side out for a scoring spree . |
17 | Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive . |
18 | Get another tape out in a minute Ju ! |
19 | Get another tape out in a minute ! |
20 | BAT Industries ' Brian Hutchinson went to the top of the class to mark the topping out of a £400,000 sports hall at Middlesbrough 's City Technology College . |
21 | The only thing that 's keeping your neck out of a noose is that little set-up you 've got going in Longrock . |
22 | Just knocked my tooth out with a hammer and chisel , that 's all . " |
23 | There is a story that someone once shot a piece out of a glass of beer he had left behind the target , leaving the rest of the glass and the beer intact . |
24 | It 's like taking a chapter out of a book ; it just does n't work . |
25 | ‘ Funnily enough , Jasper and I once helped a human diabetic out of a hypo with Jasper 's stash of sugar lumps ! ’ |
26 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
27 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
28 | These farmers are obstinately trying , sometimes with help of subsidies , to make a living — a true case of trying to make an agricultural silk purse out of a sow 's ear . |
29 | You talk about the inevitable ; as I see it , the inevitable is that you will have to move your mainly large-animal practice out into a more rural area , say , ten or twelve miles away . |
30 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |