Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For presents out of his pocket |
| 2 | He did n't fancy asking the street prostitutes for directions out of Whitechapel . |
| 3 | He blames the crisis on the fact that the museum has been forced to pay for warders out of its own budget , which has meant that the sum of DM300,000 ( £103,000 ; $186,000 ) per year earmarked for acquisitions has been virtually used up . |
| 4 | At great expense , the organisation sent a team of experts out to Africa to interview the bull . |
| 5 | ‘ If I get another couple of shillings out of it , have n't I earned them ? |
| 6 | The Dutch airline KLM is investigating why ‘ many hundreds ’ of birds out of a cargo of 15,000 , including flamingoes , were found dead on arrival from Dar es Salaam at Heathrow , en route to Miami . |
| 7 | He dug a couple of notes out of his pocket and thrust them at her . |
| 8 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 9 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
| 10 | She 's stan really sa of stands out from the the background . |
| 11 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 12 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |
| 13 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 14 | Then , unseen at first , a small but subsequently vociferous crowd of lads out on the piss gathers at the corner of the bar . |
| 15 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 16 | Transport of anions out of the cell on the uptake carrier was demonstrated directly using an anion-sensitive electrode just outside the cell . |
| 17 | And obviously it 's had an impact on the row of shops out on Road for example . |
| 18 | Just a couple of months out for Mentle would be enough for Pahdra Singh to cause havoc . |
| 19 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 20 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 21 | The spider 's web is clearly a pernicious weapon ; like the network of branches out of which it grows , it frames and structures all that falls within its domain . |
| 22 | She wished frantically to go faster , and the broomstick sped away ; but as it spurted past , the weathercock made a savage peck at it , and Carol , glancing round , saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak . |
| 23 | A master of ceremonies is needed to dispatch successive pairs of defendants out of the room , in order to keep the game going continuously . |
| 24 | Jehan took the tray of cakes out of her hands , and then he grinned ferociously at her so that she backed hastily away . |
| 25 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 26 | She stood up and took a roll of bills out of her purse . |
| 27 | Avoiding the big European states , and ignoring Cold War political boundaries , Germany 's leading poet discovers a continent of countries out of step with history and with each other . |
| 28 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 29 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 30 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |