Example sentences of "[verb] out of [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 2 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 3 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 4 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 5 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 6 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 7 | The South African foreign minister , Mr Pik Botha , publicly threatened to abort Namibian independence and was apparently cajoled out of it by Mrs Thatcher , who was in Windhoek when the trouble began . |
| 8 | What they did n't expect was a sudden erosion of their lead in the later stages of the game , and they were glad to come out of it with their scalp intact . |
| 9 | All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her . |
| 10 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 11 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 12 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 13 | The garments fitted perfectly ; he 'd grown out of them in 3 weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd 've thought you 'd 've grown out of it by now . ’ |
| 15 | Alternatively , if the beaker of water was previously at a higher temperature energy would have been transferred out of it in order to reach a temperature of 50°C . |
| 16 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 17 | Amelia 's unsubtle lust for him darted out of her like static electricity . |
| 18 | Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement . |
| 19 | They 'd grow out of it in time , she thought . |
| 20 | It does not deal with hard-core , habitual car thieves — most of whom are in their teens , and who will grow out of it by their mid-twenties . |
| 21 | It came out of me without blood . |
| 22 | " Ah , hell , what 's the point ? " came out of him in a choking sob , and he put his arm over his face . |
| 23 | ‘ I am only sorry you ever were put to it , and glad out of all measure that you came out of it without worse harm . |
| 24 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 25 | Whoever you blame on the scum transfer fiasco he came out of it as a two-faced hypocrite . |
| 26 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 27 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 28 | Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late . |
| 29 | A long dark room , it has a turret growing out of it with a view of untold magic , looking over the yew garden and the rose garden , on to Otmoor . ’ |
| 30 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |