Example sentences of "[verb] out of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 2 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 3 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 4 | Expensive-looking loafers , preferably made out of an endangered species , remain essential for any aspiring manager . |
| 5 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 6 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 7 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 8 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 9 | It includes every kind of artistic endeavour — from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car . |
| 10 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 11 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 12 | Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar . |
| 13 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 14 | Almost violently , she raised her body , ducking her head at the same time , her feverish lips seeking the scorching lure of his again , the demand for his kiss born out of an intuitive need to let him silence her , so that he might not hear the words and other sounds which would tell him just how complete his dominion of her senses already was . |
| 15 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 16 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 17 | In 1957–60 U-2 flights also operated out of an American base at Peshawar , Pakistan . |
| 18 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 19 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 20 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 21 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 22 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 23 | a spark jumps out of an ordinary household fire and causes it to spread . |
| 24 | And I think that perhaps we 've all learned a lesson from it , plus the fact that you 've er , had to climb out of an horrendous accident , but the fact that if you are still drinking at half past four in the morning , the last thing you should do at nine o'clock in the morning is get in the car and drive the damn thing . |
| 25 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 26 | Simenon never grew out of an adolescent attraction to crime , and he provides the reader with a vicarious opportunity to share his inverted moral code within the safe confines of a novel . |
| 27 | One brown , scratched negative reproduced by the Armenian Tashnag militia in Beirut shows a long column of men being led out of an Armenian village by Turkish troops . |
| 28 | There were about 2,000 members by 1939 and after 1945 the ‘ friendly society ’ dimension was further strengthened by the taking out of an expensive private insurance scheme for players , which absorbed half of the income of the Association . |
| 29 | But they emerged out of an analytical fervour : the practice of stylistic analysis pioneered in Cambridge before the war by I. A. Richards and his pupil William Empson . |
| 30 | The unsuspecting victim was horrified when a ‘ corpse ’ leaned out of an open coffin to ask him for a takeaway pizza . |