Example sentences of "[adv] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too !
2 Then she edged the van gingerly out into the unfamiliar rush-hour traffic .
3 The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme .
4 Suddenly out of the murky haze , I saw one charging at me .
5 Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him .
6 And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue .
7 Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " .
8 Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor .
9 Next , unscrew the old socket faceplate , ease the cables inside out of the mounting box , and disconnect the cable cores from the terminals .
10 I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road .
11 Where the street broadened into a square , the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement .
12 ‘ Suddenly , ’ Mr Parker recalled , ‘ he calmly turned to me and said he would not negotiate for Taylor at all , would pretend he knew nothing about him , and would go all out for the other goalkeeper . ’
13 They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight .
14 Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window .
15 The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene .
16 Imagine a source at B on the collapsing surface , S , sending light waves radially out to the remote observer at A , who is stationary with respect to the centre of the object .
17 Football obviously is the big one , so out of the two hundred you 'll probably get something like eighty footballers and then out of the other five sports that we 're going to host erm we will split them accordingly .
18 Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing .
19 Two others ( of the sixteen ) were also depressed , so out of the nine who had been in care and were currently depressed , seven had also had premarital pregnancies .
20 I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms .
21 So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO .
22 Sometimes an old woman clambered mysteriously alone out of the dark silence on to the airy lightness of the Ridgery ; sometimes a friar came out of the trees , mounted to the village and required alms in a confident whining way .
23 … the black and red patterned blanket folded over with the top sheet to form two parallel white borders from which the planes move slowly off , rise suddenly and vanish or come in out of the low grey cloud … . ( 10–11/404–5 )
24 She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything .
25 The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow .
26 A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession .
27 For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus .
28 So , at least your in out of the damp cold , it 's so damp out there .
29 He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall .
30 Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ?
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