Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she was wrenched out of shadow into heavier shadow still , and realized it was almost too late already . |
| 2 | Jane Fonda 's New Workout was deemed out of date with risky exercises and lots of jogging and bouncing movements . |
| 3 | If a new factory creates a pollutant which is about as poisonous as , say , privet leaves , it may be heckled out of business . |
| 4 | Contempts Committed out of Court |
| 5 | I shall turn not to contempt committed out of court or to ‘ constructive ’ contempts as they are sometimes called . |
| 6 | Mrs Frizzell drank her coffee quickly , then scrambled out of bed and proceeded a little unsteadily to the kitchen , her cotton nightgown drooping despondent–y round her . |
| 7 | She pushed all thoughts of Julius out of her head , scrambled out of bed , and began to open her presents . |
| 8 | A balanced perspective of the role of chance is difficult to develop or maintain when common sense has been drilled out during training . |
| 9 | Witte ordered the body hustled out of sight and dispatched the train at once , so that the Tsar should not be distressed by the sight . |
| 10 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 11 | the design was not strong enough to resist the forces exerted while Span 5–6 was being cantilevered out from Pier 6 |
| 12 | He was still acting as a trustee for the officers and men of the artillery train when additional compensation was voted out of crown lands in the act of 1652 ; a misleading reference from May of that year has led some authorities to assume that he was dead by then . |
| 13 | The government lost by one vote , 311 to 310 , and for the first time since October 1924 an administration had been voted out of office through a Commons vote . |
| 14 | If democratic elections still exist , the chances are that the government will be voted out of office . |
| 15 | There were violent demonstrations in Belgrade after the Yugoslav federal president , Dobrica Cosic , was voted out of office by an alliance of the ruling Socialist Party and the ultra-nationalist Radical Party . |
| 16 | If managers do badly , the company 's directors may be voted out of office at the annual general meeting of shareholders . |
| 17 | At a private meeting in Westminster five officers of the 1922 back-bench committee were warned that they faced being voted out of office as punishment for persistent opposition to the Government on the bill to implement the Maastricht treaty . |
| 18 | THE Albanian parliament elected Dr Sali Berisha , 47 , as President last night to replace Mr Ramiz Alia , who resigned last week after his Socialist Party of former Communists was voted out of power . |
| 19 | The blunt-talking Yorkshireman has been voted out as chairman of the Umpires ' Association by his fellow pros . |
| 20 | The average factory worker is paid a wage which is unrelated to productivity or protects and which is squeezed out of management , often through painful industrial disputation . |
| 21 | The contention is that today the margins have been squeezed out of PC sales . |
| 22 | But , and it 's a big but , what the enthusiastic driver would once have interpreted as an enjoyable adjustable cornering balance has been squeezed out of existence . |
| 23 | Inevitably many marine creatures became extinct when their habitats were literally squeezed out of existence . |
| 24 | The price was that much redundant labour was squeezed out of industry , and unemployment rose to above three million . |
| 25 | Business rivals , employees I 've had to fire , people who 've got squeezed out in takeover bids — ’ He gave a small shrug . |
| 26 | She made touching things for the children called mock devil's-food-cakes , concocted out of cocoa , golden syrup , carrots and soya flour . |
| 27 | The film 's biggest problem is that the characters were catapulted out of college in the early Eighties , with forgettable soundtrack to match . |
| 28 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 29 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 30 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |