Example sentences of "me out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 2 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 3 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 4 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 5 | So we continue travelling hopefully , traversing the geography , and absorbing impressions that may get me out of the pictorial routine that all artists are prone to . |
| 6 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 7 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 8 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 9 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 10 | His eyes now lit by a weak leer of hope , Barometer Barnes closed me out on the pink 35–43 . |
| 11 | ‘ You let me out at the next corner . |
| 12 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 13 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 14 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |