Example sentences of "out [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales .
2 Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way .
3 He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton .
4 This means handicaps are out for him in the immediate future and conditions races will have to be the order of the day on the run-up to Cheltenham .
5 Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant .
6 They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home .
7 If the Danish Government was able to distribute 300,000 copies of the Maastricht text through newsagents and libraries , who has decided here , or in Brussels , that the British public should not be allowed to find out for themselves during the election what the small print of the treaty contains ?
8 ‘ Yes , I brought her the tray Mrs Porter had set out for her in the kitchen .
9 Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library .
10 And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks .
11 It 's only one o nine , I 'm gon na get some out for me in the church , next week .
12 Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky .
13 It was essential to be able to put a hand out for something in the dark without knocking over a jug of water , or sending a pee-bottle flying .
14 The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify .
15 Matters can be most easily be sorted out for you on the spot whilst you are in resort , when your Representative , who is authorised to deal fully with any complaint , can see and understand the exact nature of any problems you have .
16 Getting lazily to his feet , he went out , and returned a few minutes later to announce , ‘ There 's a snack being laid out for you in the dining-room .
17 And it 's supposed to keep me from reaching out for you in the night , wrapping my arms around you , letting my lips tangle in your hair … ’
18 It 's alright , I 'll look out for you in the Pentam
19 Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming !
20 A survey of 295 property inheritors carried out for it by the Housing Research Foundation confirmed that two-thirds of inheritors promptly sold the houses they were left , whereas 22% moved into them .
21 ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire .
22 ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire .
23 She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time .
24 Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words .
25 The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place .
26 Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end .
27 We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night .
28 Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject .
29 I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes .
30 The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it .
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