Example sentences of "[pron] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 2 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 3 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 4 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 5 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 6 | ‘ Be quiet yourself , ’ he said , stretching himself out on the uncomfortable horsehair sofa . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 10 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 11 | Pears , 30 , virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said : ‘ Time is against me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eventually , Joicey cornered him , and in desperation , the keeper threw himself out of the nearest open window ; landing ten feet below , with a badly sprained arm and sore head . |
| 15 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 16 | Argyle player-manager Shilton ruled himself out of the hiding-to-nothing trip with a groin strain . |
| 17 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | From first to last he kept himself out of the public limelight . |
| 20 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 21 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 22 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 23 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 24 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 25 | In Holloway they do n't take you out to the ante-natal clinic or get you a scan or nothing ; Styal they do . |
| 26 | enough to colour and usher you out of the bottom field , |
| 27 | If your marriage is on the rocks , the thing to do is throw a wobbly on a motorway at night so that your husband will put you out at the next lay-by . |
| 28 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll kill you now , ’ Woolley said flatly , ‘ and stick your fat body in my plane , and in ten minutes I 'll throw you out behind the German lines , unless you get me my booze and my scarves . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |