Example sentences of "out [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 2 | Most of the events classified as severe could be interpreted as involving some kind of loss or threat of loss : finding out about a husband 's unfaithfulness , a life-threatening illness to someone close , or redundancy from a job held for many years . |
| 3 | They held their automatic rifles across their midriffs , four friends out for a day 's sport . |
| 4 | I spotted several club professionals , who were clearly delighted to be out for a day 's entertainment at the expense of one of the manufacturers . |
| 5 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 6 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 7 | If ever a house cried out for a woman 's hand , thought the lady dramatically , this was it ! |
| 8 | The girl and her family were ushered out through a judge 's exit before reporters were allowed into court . |
| 9 | You must tell them that the balance of the first year 's payment will be taken out through a banker 's order . |
| 10 | He could have been anyone or anything stepping out after a night 's wining and dining . |
| 11 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 12 | She goes on : ‘ The problem with taking a management decision out of a farmer 's hands as an economic decision and putting it into conservationists hands is that the conservationists do n't always agree . |
| 13 | Never ever been out of a union er till I retired cos I always paid these fees and er yes . |
| 14 | And out of the bracken and the thin , fine rain the Welsh boiled like foam out of a hound 's jaws , to confront the English in the narrows under the hill . |
| 15 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 16 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 17 | A dividend can not be paid out of a subsidiary 's pre-acquisition profits if this reduces the carrying value of a holding company 's investment in that subsidiary . |
| 18 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 19 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
| 20 | These farmers are obstinately trying , sometimes with help of subsidies , to make a living — a true case of trying to make an agricultural silk purse out of a sow 's ear . |
| 21 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 23 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 24 | Comes out of a chicken 's arse do n't you mean ? |
| 25 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 27 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 28 | But when the order came signed by the president you know , hands up , who 's commander in chief , not so fast MacArthur , you 're out of a job erm MacArthur accepted that . |
| 29 | Well I think he 's sort of , he 's out of a job ai n't he ? |
| 30 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |