Example sentences of "[being] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truthfully , I had n't believed in Heavenly Father since my fourth Christmas Eve night , the night when Auntie trod on my brick-truck as she tried to sneak in with my present — a smart Apollo Candy with stabilisers , hand-painted maroon — Pa being out with the Recovery . |
| 2 | ‘ What we must hope and pray for , me boys , ’ he said one night as they dined alone on salad and cold meat , Ellie being out at a concert , ‘ is for a state of some permanence . |
| 3 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 4 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 5 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 6 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 7 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 8 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 9 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 10 | He retorted : ‘ He 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and It 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running , especially with this group developing so closely . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course he 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and it 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running . ’ |
| 12 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 13 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 14 | She felt guilty at how much she enjoyed being out of the house , even out of the village . |
| 15 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 16 | Back in the warm , silken night air , beneath the massive arc of bright stars , she breathed in greedily , revelling in the blessed contrast , the giddy relief of being out of the cave . |
| 17 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 18 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | And also given the nature of the kind of people who want to wield authority over others they ca n't bear being out of the limelight , it gives them one last throw . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 21 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 22 | They are not sufficient to justify the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb from the rest of Britain , either in its voting behaviour or the thinking that produces it . |
| 23 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |
| 24 | It was all question of being out on the track at the right moment close to the end of the session when it was drying . |
| 25 | The race , between Speke and New Brighton and back , means hundreds of people being out on the river but neither the Lifeboat service or the Coastguard were officially notified of the arrangements . |
| 26 | ‘ What I 'll miss most , ’ confesses our retiring hero , ‘ is being out on the stage before a 60,000 crowd , performing . |
| 27 | He had virtually lived his entire life in a stable as he was ‘ far too valuable to run the risk of being out in a yard ! ’ |
| 28 | If the character has any sense , he will realize that being out in a lightning storm carrying a chunk of metal is n't a good idea , and drop it to his associates on the ground , turn ethereal , or take some other steps to ensure his safety . |
| 29 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 30 | Being out in the field … that was active . |