Example sentences of "[adj] out of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , it is equally acceptable in most settings to dress like Heidi — or a lady weightlifter , a tart , a 50s magistrate , a navvy , a two-year-old fresh out of the sandpit in vivid flowered dungarees , or an exotic refugee from Kubla Khan 's pleasure dome . |
| 2 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 3 | It was another Glory and it had been abandoned , half in and half out of a ditch . |
| 4 | He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff . |
| 5 | Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures . |
| 6 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |
| 7 | The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily . |
| 8 | Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass . |
| 9 | " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water . |
| 10 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 11 | She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’ |
| 12 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 13 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 14 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 15 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 16 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |
| 17 | The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board . |
| 18 | At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother . |
| 19 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 20 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 21 | Then , half in , half out of the car , he suddenly became very still . |
| 22 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 23 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 24 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 25 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 26 | On March 29 the Cabinet approved the suspension of municipal and provincial councils , announcing that the measure would affect 397 out of the country 's 1,541 municipalities , and 14 of its 48 provinces . |
| 27 | ‘ If that report is anywhere near accurate , they could knock anything we have at present clear out of the sky . |
| 28 | We cruised in company with pilot whales off the Butt of Lewis , ranged alongside the huge basking shark to compare its thirty foot length with our own and , on one occasion , witnessed an unidentified whale breach practically clear out of the sea like some mammoth salmon . |
| 29 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 30 | The force of its leap dragged Trent breast high out of the water . |