Example sentences of "[noun sg] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Reenan , 70 , was only glimpsed briefly yesterday , sneaking a glance out of the window of his home in a private road . |
| 2 | She watched Victorine glance out of the window , seize a shovel and bucket , dash outside . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , ’ Alexander said and cast a regretful glance out of the window . |
| 4 | A modern complex out at the back is now the College . |
| 5 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 6 | Maggie asked softly and he gave a strange laugh , leading the horse out into the sunlight and locking the door securely again . |
| 7 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 8 | Market reforms have revived a left-wing opposition out of the ashes of the outlawed Communist Party , says Roy Medvedev |
| 9 | ’ Patrick eased the faded sea pink out of the pocket and stuck it in the buttonhole of his shirt . |
| 10 | he took the card out of the slot , pulled back his left cuff and pressed the card to his wrist . |
| 11 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |
| 12 | Pluck a London-based journalist out of the office ; put him or her on a train with a party heavyweight ; and wait for a slice of prime grassroots ham to arrive . |
| 13 | You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting . |
| 14 | where a cricket ball is hit by any ordinary stroke out of the ground into another person 's premises or onto the highway . |
| 15 | Burning of the Dicranopteris , which acts as a nutrient-conservation system , leads to its shooting out from the rhizomes but trees can not get established . |
| 16 | Werder Bremen knocked the holders Napoli out of the Uefa Cup last night , 8-3 on aggregate after winning the second leg 5-1 . |
| 17 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 18 | It flickered and flew along the elding , and then burst into smoke , so thick and foul in the throat that I was fain to get on my knees behind a boulder , for the wind out of the cove sent it downhill … |
| 19 | There were fierce fights along the way — particularly in the House of Lords — but the concession on pensions took much of the wind out of the Opposition 's sails . |
| 20 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 21 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 22 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 23 | He kissed the top of her head , and moved on to get a saucepan out of the oven . |
| 24 | Anyway , to Mickey the East was where his Uncle Dick and Aunt Mavis live at High Burnton out towards the coast . ’ |
| 25 | There was a second agent out in the darkness , at the front of the house . |
| 26 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 27 | And it was as Doyle swung the car out into the traffic again that he glimpsed the girl from the oriental-art shop . |
| 28 | Dawson nosed the car out into the traffic and came to a halt almost immediately . |
| 29 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 30 | He shrugged , backing the car out of the parking space to turn it deftly up the narrow unpaved path leading up from the river . |