Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 3 | Just knocked my tooth out with a hammer and chisel , that 's all . " |
| 4 | ‘ I 've cut my boss out like a cancer but I ca n't drive past where I used to work , ’ she says . |
| 5 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 6 | nice talking to someone about education cos I talk to some people and they think I 'm crackers cos I took my kid out of a state school ! |
| 7 | Soon after my mother died Fat Vince took my dad out in a famous fight , by the gents " in the alley when the Shakespeare was young . |
| 8 | I felt better now and decided to lie my way out of a tricky situation . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes I arrive on the set knowing I could n't act my way out of a paper bag . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't fight my way out of a paper bag now . |
| 11 | We cut a mask for my face out of a balaclava and made it black with boot polish . |
| 12 | AN Aberdeen lecturer is being forced to choose between becoming the first Scots academic to be made redundant and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 13 | The dispute was sparked by the university 's decision to force a senior lecturer in the school to choose between compulsory redundancy and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 14 | At the centre of the row is the university 's decision to force Sheena Falconer , a senior lecturer in the school , to choose between accepting compulsory redundancy and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 15 | Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage . |
| 16 | But eagle-eyed Customs men solved the case of the Maltese pigeon when the stowaway popped her head out of a brandy bottle presentation box . |
| 17 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 18 | A snake paid its length out of a crevice , seeming endless because its coils were out of sight in the niche . |
| 19 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 20 | They tried their idea out on a piece of glass which they dipped into a solution containing their compound . |
| 21 | A crowd of about seven or eight youths on their way out of a Chinese carryout were in high spirits . |
| 22 | PAKISTAN 'S batsmen hit their way out of a recent slump with a blazing performance against Queensland at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday . |
| 23 | The adventurers just might be able to talk their way out of a fight with this Skeleton Major Hero , and might even be able to talk one or two details out of him , but a combat is likely at some stage ; see Friedrich 's profile for details . |
| 24 | The movies had fought their way out of a corner , leaving saloons , poolrooms , and dance-halls behind , but they had won their way through not so much to middle-class respectability as to classlessness . |
| 25 | The whole affair came to an abrupt conclusion in August , when two members of the House Committee reported that on their way out of a board meeting , they came across a group of about fifteen women who were waiting outside the laundry for their pay , which had been due the previous day . |
| 26 | There ai n't one of 'em could punch their way out of a paper bag . ’ |
| 27 | There were repeated instances , in fact , of assaults on policemen who then found it necessary to draw their truncheons and fight their way out of a crowd . |
| 28 | Thus although they can learn colours as signals for food and as markers for the entrance to their hive , they have difficulty with other types of colour learning , such as using colour as a cue to finding their way out of a closed space . |
| 29 | Sherman believes that , as a result of these changes , police are more likely to talk their way out of a potentially disorderly situation than they were in the 1960s ( ibid.:231 ) . |
| 30 | As they tried to make their way out of a carpark , the attendant was still taking their 20p parking fees . |