Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a centre wants to find out about compatibility of their computer system and SCOTVEC 's or wants information on specifications to set up a system , contact myself or my colleague Fraser MacFarlane . |
| 2 | If you were contracted out for part of your working life , the DHSS tells your employer how much to pay as pension . |
| 3 | The BBC is particularly singled out for criticism for its recent coverage and the exclusion of senior Presbyterian Church figures from televised discussions on the worsening political situation and from a BBC radio debate on Church representation on education boards . |
| 4 | And I take it the police still have his case more or less open , and will be looking out for news of him , in case there 's something more in it . |
| 5 | She had worn it twice , once when she had gone out for dinner with her father and Leo and on the night of Sylvie 's return from Italy . |
| 6 | ‘ If I promise to stop teasing you , will you come out for dinner with me ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ OK , then , if you want me to play it straight , I 'll introduce you tomorrow whether you come out for dinner with me tonight or not . ’ |
| 8 | Each time I went to Bristol , she took me out for tea on her own , or with a girlfriend . |
| 9 | Blaming other people , while opting out of responsibility for his or her own condition , is the hallmark of a sufferer from addictive disease . |
| 10 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 11 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |
| 12 | The Economist circulation is now five hundred and twenty five thousand each week , and although their er year is out of sync with ours , I expect the profits for the year to be at or near record levels once again . |
| 13 | The cast and crew get on famously and are throwing yet another party — a ‘ vicars and tarts ’ one I believe ( you 're made for it ) , but I decline this evening 's invitation out of reverence for my Mom . |
| 14 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 15 | LEVEL 42 have a new record deal with RCA , having settled out of court with their old label Polydor following a dispute over the band 's next album . |
| 16 | My initial relief that there were finds to meet the cheque was replaced by a feeling that the letter was out of character with everything I knew about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 17 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |
| 18 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book very politely describes this building as ‘ extraordinarily out of character with its surroundings ’ . |
| 19 | Today , however , it is a splendid two-track road , out of character with its surroundings but permitting fast progress — although few will fail to stop often to appraise the changing views around each bend . |
| 20 | Scarborough Council 's tourism committee is planning to remodel or replace the feature which has been strongly opposed by conservationists in Whitby , claiming it is out of character with its heritage . |
| 21 | The later wildness and eccentricity of his style were completely out of character with his conventional , moral and industrious way of life ; his obituary reported that he had died from overwork . |
| 22 | He told the court that he had been under ‘ emotional stress ’ at the time of the offence and that it was very much out of character for him to drink and then drive . |
| 23 | It 's out of character for him to gaze contemplatively out of windows . |
| 24 | To date , the USSR has never attacked a stronger opponent , but it is not out of character for her to steal a march on her equals when their guard is down . |
| 25 | It was out of character for her to show a customer anything less than friendliness , but she was at a loss with this one , completely thrown off balance , and it showed in her abrupt tone . |
| 26 | She made no attempt to hide herself , in some strange way , completely out of character for herself , taunting him with the choice he had made . |
| 27 | ‘ Very now -thinking but very out of character for you . |
| 28 | ‘ It was so out of character for your father . |
| 29 | This is what , out of consideration for me , you are now surrounding with talk about whether and how and why . |
| 30 | For now he will continue to live in London , but more out of consideration for his daughter who is sitting her A-levels than a disinclination to move north . |