Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 2 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 3 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 4 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 5 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 7 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 8 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 9 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 10 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 11 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 12 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |
| 13 | From first to last he kept himself out of the public limelight . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 15 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 16 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 17 | In short , to explore ways by which the BBC could pull itself out of the on-going financial crisis but , at the same time , to maintain the quality of the product . |
| 18 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 19 | We found the gypsies about their business : Zylpha washing clothes in the beck , old Katie mending a torn jacket , Jake dismantling two old bicycles and trying to make one good one out of the spare parts , and Rosie , the little riddle-me-ree girl , splashing naked in the water . |
| 20 | So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt . |
| 21 | Mr Slavicek was out of Prague that week , and there was no one out of the remaining 449 employees who had the authority to give one black-and-white photograph to a local newspaper . |
| 22 | In his drunkenness he had seemed like something out of a cheap Sunday newspaper : her marriage was like that also , as her husband was , underhand and vicious in a small town . |
| 23 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 24 | Kelly 's scream echoed silently within her as , like something out of a distant dream , the band played on . |
| 25 | The other women had n't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes . |
| 26 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 27 | Something out of an Italian movie . |
| 28 | ‘ It was like something out of an old Peter Lorre , Sidney Greenstreet film , ’ he remembers . |
| 29 | He takes something out of the black box . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |