Example sentences of "[noun pl] out of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The mean ol' Gruzzles ca n't read and they do n't want any one else to be able to read so they have stolen all the words out of the books .
2 The air in the wood was damp and smelt of peat , the path was muddy and wet , and it was exhausting constantly pushing brambles and twigs out of the way .
3 I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year .
4 He swung his legs out of the bed and realised with a shock what day it was .
5 Then she swung her legs out of the bed and hurriedly got dressed .
6 With no clear plan in her head , she pushed her legs out of the bed .
7 ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat .
8 She handed him his denim jacket and swung her legs out of the car .
9 I jumped straight off the table and ran through his legs out of the room .
10 When he realised his mammy was at the door , he swung his legs out of the chair and came rushing to greet her .
11 Downstairs , the Sikhs , the Magistrate , Rayne , a couple of young ensigns , and a motley collection of indigo planters and Eurasians , were engaged in a desperate fight to keep the sepoys out of the building ; but already they were being driven back from doors and windows .
12 Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities .
13 The first steps out of the greenhouse
14 The first steps out of the greenhouse
15 An askari salutes as Fairfax steps out of the car in uniform .
16 Fairfax steps out of the car .
17 I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets .
18 But then I saw ghastly yellow figures staggering like drunkards out of the wall of smoke …
19 It 's not the business of social services staff , from directors downwards , to pull their chestnuts out of the fire by disguising the facts .
20 With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work .
21 I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat .
22 ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school .
23 Super-hip fashion accessory or just a way of keeping the kids out of the amusement arcades ?
24 Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night .
25 ‘ So I just — I got the kids out of the house — ‘ n ’ I rang this number . ’
26 We had difficulty persuading our kids out of the creche and into their different groups , they liked the wee ones so much !
27 I was down there serenading my heart out and they all started to pop their heads out of the window .
28 There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window .
29 It gives them plenty of cover and also somewhere to rest with their heads out of the water but their bodies submerged .
30 Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor .
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