Example sentences of "[vb past] out of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as her senses swam out of focus from the sweet , cruel pleasure he was inflicting , he insisted on taking her one heartless step further . |
| 2 | Given the conventional wisdom that any change in tax affairs should be put into effect before 5 April , allied to Bernard 's natural impulsiveness and Laura 's love of buying and doing up old houses , the haste with which the Ashleys moved out of Britain in the spring of 1978 is easily understood . |
| 3 | That year he moved out of London to the Kent countryside and was henceforth mainly writing books , raising children and nursing his health . |
| 4 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
| 5 | However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme . |
| 6 | In 1971 he moved to Canada , to Dalhousie University , and that same year sailed out of Halifax on board the research ship Hudson for his first field trip to study marine geology . |
| 7 | But , as so often , no one was prepared to halt the machine once set in motion and on Friday 26 January 1744 Admiral Jacques de Roquefeuil sailed out of Brest with a fleet of 22 ships , with instructions to cover the embarkation of the army at Dunkirk and then to lure the English fleet away towards the Isle of Wight . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , my God , ’ said Paula as they drove out of sight of the frontier post , ‘ my palms are wet inside my gloves . ’ |
| 9 | He drove out of Sandwich via the only bridge across the Stour , cruised up the A256 to the crossroads outside Ramsgate where he had seen the Renault 18 disappear three weeks before . |
| 10 | As the cab drove out of Frankfurt to the address on the way to the airport , Horowitz , sitting erect , case in his lap , reflected he was the only real professional in this game . |
| 11 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 12 | We drove out of town on the Dublin road , then swung up a lane , beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin . |
| 13 | It seemed out of proportion to its surroundings , like a piece of pop sculpture on a deliberately provoking scale . |
| 14 | Mr Lilley never looked happy at the Department of Trade and Industry , where his non-interventionist views seemed out of tune with a deepening recession which was laying waste many of the businesses created in the boom years of 1980s . |
| 15 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 16 | His silks , his plaited hair , his very foreign-ness seemed out of place amongst the low oak beams and sturdy yeoman furniture . |
| 17 | The cane furniture , silver framed pictures , and extravagant , wall-mounted lighting seemed out of place in this shoddy high rise . |
| 18 | A verdict of accidental death 's been recorded on a woman who was crushed beneath a coach when it veered out of control across a busy street . |
| 19 | He dropped out of athletics after a season without a win . |
| 20 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 21 | Debbie dropped out of college after the first year . ’ |
| 22 | This idea came out of Women in Development , and the Equity approach saw women as active members of a developing society . |
| 23 | Barron retired in 1881 , but came out of retirement for a commission for the ninth Earl of Dysart at Welbeck Abbey in 1886 . |
| 24 | The ruling Duke Waifer had been killed in the war with Pepin , but his father , Hunold , came out of retirement in a monastery to lead the revolt . |
| 25 | Bernard Callinan came out of Dili with the Dutch headquarters between two files of their native troops and reached the Company positions at Three Spurs above the port ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 26 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 27 | Quarter to three till quarter to ten and er we came out of stall at quarter to ten at night . |
| 28 | He climbed out of Armstrong on my side and stood over me until I pushed down my window . |
| 29 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 30 | The accident happened out of sight of the public enclosures and 80,000 spectators rose to their feet in a stunned numbness when the tannoy announced that Clark was dead . |