Example sentences of "[verb] out of [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After the screaming adrenalin of the snatch outside Oxford , they had been penned up day and night in a single house , drinking beer from cans he had bought at motorway service stations , keeping out of sight all the time , hearing callers at the door ring and ring before finally going away without an answer .
2 Nevertheless , the Home Secretary was persuaded that anything which might help towards countering the rising prison population by keeping out of prison those who need not be there was worth trying :
3 Is not the difficulty that the Home Secretary is incapable of keeping in prison those people who should be and keeping out of prison those things which should not be ?
4 Shell out of DOS first .
5 Jessie had come out of No. 3 and now sat stiffly down on the step beside him .
6 While they might have looked out of place next to the modern heavy metal , they are vying for a lucrative market .
7 The present Prime Minister would be unable to come out of No. 10 Downing street and say , ’ We are standing by the constitution of the USSR and we condemn the coup as unconstitutional . ’
8 Bullock Bank station in the Dover Strait , for example , was reported out of position last January and was eventually recovered 61 nautical miles away .
9 IBC is expected to pass out of Chapter 11 protection in May of this year , at which time the bank will be the sole holder of all outstanding IBC shares .
10 Here comes one of the most exciting games in the Division which is remarkable considering they nearly dropped out of sight last season and sold Stan Collimore this .
11 He was very much the prime reason for Palace 's success in climbing out of Division Four in 1960–61 and Johnny 's 30 League goals for us that season remain Palace 's post-war scoring record for a single season to this day .
12 Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for .
13 Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed .
14 A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 .
15 ROSAT , the X-ray satellite that span out of control three weeks ago , was restarted last week .
16 It is this which makes a structure made out of timber such a safe one , generally one can very nearly get away with murder .
17 Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze .
18 TRIMDON Grange Workingmen 's Club , which came out of receivership three years ago , is aiming to become one of the most popular clubs in the area .
19 I came out of church one day , to do some visiting , from the over sixties , and there was a boy with a a great chunk of rock in his hand , and he was looking at the window .
20 John Patten came out of No 10 looking pleased with himself just as William Waldegrave arrived looking rather less so .
21 It was in that position that Alf was an important member of Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , when we climbed out of Division 4 in 1960–61 and , with his Cup-tie appearances , be comes one the group of only forty or so men to have played over 200 games for our club .
22 I think he 's as far wrong on that as he was on his projections about GM Europe going out of business four years ago .
23 Despite careful selection , however , a proportion of students drop out of college each year for a variety of personal reasons : exam failure ; illness ; and family or other personal circumstances .
24 Used alone they exhibit a specific characteristic known as inverse solubility by which is meant that as temperature increases they drop out of solution contrary to expected behaviour .
25 The lower half of the window was frosted glass , and the furniture could have been hauled out of store five minutes before .
26 I do realize out of time this so erm I 'd like to just g erm go through the profit loss for one year quite quickly .
27 It is important when evaluating a belief to weed out of consideration any form of pretence or hypocrisy associated with the people claiming to hold the belief .
28 He ducked out of number twenty-three and slammed shut the door .
29 The fact that his form has been positively Bradmanesque may have something to do with this , but one suspects it has more to do with the ‘ Get Out of Jail Free ’ card he appears to be clutching .
30 Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars .
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