Example sentences of "out [prep] the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to find out about the better side of cruising catamarans , phone for details . |
| 2 | It may be considered that a three year period in 7.6.5 is too long and that two years is an adequate period for reinstatement to take place , but the landlord will probably hold out for the longer period . |
| 3 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 4 | The material taken out of the higher point of the site was deemed unsuitable for use at the lower end . |
| 5 | She came to the window when he pressed the button on the entryphone , poking her head out of the lower half of the opened sash window , through dark brown curtains . |
| 6 | In a meritocracy , talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata . |
| 7 | Variety headlines spin out of the papier maché mist and chart the rise of a career . |
| 8 | Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework . |
| 9 | Blow through the small hole so the contents come out of the larger hole on to the saucer . |
| 10 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Out of the longer silence while they all digested this fiat and readjusted to a suggestion so unexpected , the earl said with evident satisfaction — indeed , to Cadfael 's ears bordering on glee : ‘ Agreed ! |
| 12 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 13 | The barest instant after he was free , a tongue of flame blasted out of the cave at his heels , and pieces of the higher slopes disappeared inwards as flames and gouts of smoke exploded out of the weaker points of the mountain . |
| 14 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 15 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 16 | Perhaps the World Cup had taken too much out of the younger sides . |
| 17 | The Irish colony of Knokvergence at Cable Street stood out against the newer buildings of Pennington . |
| 18 | But this er w this this feeling of erm not being respected , w do you think in that was in any sense a an important motivation for just sticking it out amongst the older men ? |
| 19 | I cast out into the calmer seas beyond , whilst they continue their provocative tramp around us . |
| 20 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 21 | Should you decide to stick to sherry and branch out into the heavier aloroso you will have a thick head tomorrow and we will have an entertaining evening . ’ |
| 22 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 23 | Where the main dale leaves the National Park and opens out into the flatter farmland of the old North Riding is Wensley itself , now a tiny village compared to its bigger neighbour of Leyburn , a busy typical northern Dales town with its wide main street and broad pavements laid out for market stalls . |
| 24 | But Tsu Ma had turned already and was wading out into the deeper water . |
| 25 | Pupils are receiving occult teaching , and are studying the science of life — before going out into the larger world to relieve the stress of humanity , to teach mankind the Divine Wisdom , God 's Plan for the World , Evolution — to bring happiness to the unhappy , peace to the warring , and the only true happiness is found through service and brotherhood . |
| 26 | This is a bit of the continent , sticking out into the warmer sea to the south-east . |
| 27 | But for such degenerates as Cade , or these two , Shakespeare can also deprive his prose of rhythm , make it flaccid , shapeless , a difficult mouthful to get out : Caliban 's verse stands out with the greater force , cured as he now is of his delusions : But — so at least the juxtaposition suggests — that is in part the judgement that verse can make over prose . |
| 28 | Thakin Ba Sein , the first leader of Do-Bama Asi-Ayone , who had fallen out with the younger Thakins and formed a rival party , came in . |
| 29 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 30 | The ‘ edges ’ are an almost continuous series of jagged scarps or outcrops where the hard carboniferous sandstone juts out from the softer rock which has been worn away by the elements over millions of years . |