Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He only got his chance because we had a few players out with flu . |
| 2 | If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it . |
| 3 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 4 | That 's a small farming village a few kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn . |
| 5 | Here 's a new show — may not be much good — never mind , book Bernard Walton , he 'll get a few laughs out of it . |
| 6 | A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants . |
| 7 | ‘ So , late on the Sunday night , with your father 's body propped up in the Rolls , you drive to Streatley , move a few boxes out of the deep-freeze and put your father in . |
| 8 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 10 | She had a quick look round the room and shoved a few things out of sight in the glory-hole cupboard . |
| 11 | You know , something more traditional , you know like maybe doing a few things out of The Sound of Music . |
| 12 | Rowboats , a few feet out to sea , |
| 13 | I squeezed the plastic bottle and sent a jet of petrol out of it , over the wick of the lighter , held a few centimetres out from the nozzle by an aluminium tent-peg . |
| 14 | Only er National Savings are worth keeping your eye on , because the government 's very keen to make a few shillings out of National Savings , and you might get some good issues in the future . |
| 15 | Patrick stirred , rolled his head and spewed a few words out through his sliced lips and mangled mouth . |
| 16 | You 'll make a few roubles out of that clock , old lad . |
| 17 | No doubt from only a few yards out of the clearing , to get a straight view . |
| 18 | ‘ I did manage to worm a few details out of him but strictly in confidence . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 20 | They say that aside from getting a few noses out of joint at Microsoft Corp , enough people felt BillyGram was a silly name and would prevent it from being taken seriously . |
| 21 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 22 | A few days out of Lazar Farm , the group celebrated Lithafest . |
| 23 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
| 24 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 25 | Thus Lizzie F. was able to take a few years out of work to nurse her mother , an auctioneer 's widow , before returning to work after her mother 's death . |
| 26 | For people from a closed world , I thought dimly , they 're well-informed — if a few years out of date . |
| 27 | Winter Marsh was on the Foulness side of the Roach , marked on my map — a few years out of date — as a restricted area because of the infantry training ground and firing ranges . |
| 28 | ‘ A few miles out to the east we glimpsed the dark girl you and Bicker described from the Isle of Mist . |
| 29 | Only a few miles out of London there are green fields and woods , due to strong observation of greenbelt principles by the Government and councils . |
| 30 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |