Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 2 | At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold . |
| 3 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 4 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 5 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 6 | Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match . |
| 7 | The views expressed by Julie White and Hilary Patrick leave out of consideration the unfortunate fact that some kinds of serious mental illness may be associated with lack of insight . |
| 8 | Prices range from 65 pounds to 665 pound the better the suit the higher the price , most people opt for a semi-dry suit it is made out of neoprene a rubbery material which lets the water in but does n't let it out again your body heat warms the water up . |
| 9 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 10 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 11 | My thoughts were interrupted by several loud bangs from very close by , then two flares lit the sky , hanging eerily just above the trees , then drifting out of sight a short distance away , followed by a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 12 | Our view of the pig/human relationship is that the farther out of sight the living pig is , the better — as though the actual animal is an embarrassing stage that pigfeed has to go through on its way to being packaged bacon . |
| 13 | ’ ‘ You go along that Blo Norton road and you 'll never see the black cat unless Alby [ we 'll call him that , though that was n't his proper name ] if Alby had disappeared out of sight the black cat was there . |
| 14 | There 's it 's mirror image and what you will find is that you can superimpose side by side and two , any two of those atoms there those groups but then , straight away the other two are out of position the other two have reversed . |
| 15 | Arriving late to find all moving stairways were out of order a panicky half mile sprint was needed to catch our plane . |
| 16 | Whether they can be relied upon ( they can always be cried in aid ) depends partly on how out of date the approved version is and partly on how near to approval the roll-forward version is . |
| 17 | But the sun tugged her out of bed the next day and there was the butterfly , still fluttering . |
| 18 | As he led the way to the kitchen and put the kettle on , he muttered , ‘ Sounds as though someone got out of bed the wrong … ’ |
| 19 | How could I forget the days when I was in and out of love every five minutes ? |
| 20 | During the next year Sally fell in and out of love a half dozen times and each time it proved to be just as disastrous . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I ran out of gas a little bit there , ’ said Chang , the youngest ever French Open champion in 1989 at 17 . |
| 22 | I try to keep out of trouble the best I can . |
| 23 | This they can not do , mainly because they take out of context the parental characteristics they are studying and then average out all fluctuations over time and situation . |
| 24 | Then the drifting cloud that had massed before the rising sun parted , and a single shaft of direct light leaped through the east window , setting the rose tracery ablaze with glowing colours , and flew like a lance from end to end of the church , calling out of shadow the strong , slender ribs that patterned the vault with great starry flowers , turning the roofrib to gold , and glittering in the curls of all the singing cherubim on the painted bosses . |
| 25 | Once he was out of power the unlikely coalition of former enemies fell apart . |
| 26 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 27 | Unable fully to abreact their responses to the trauma in their still quite limited conscious awareness , and unprepared by evolution for the revolutionary change which had suddenly overtaken them , our distant hominid ancestors dealt with the upheaval in their psychological and social lives in part by repressing it and forcing out of consciousness the irreconcilable conflicts which now occupied their instinctual drives . |
| 28 | Crucially , although the impedances between P' 1 , X' and P' 2 are extremely tiny when the bridge is balanced , as soon as it goes out of balance the large primary inductance of the detector transformer comes into play so that the balance condition is very critical and the bridge consequently very sensitive . |
| 29 | The model to this point has assumed fixed factor prices , an assumption that might apply to a small open economy ( although even then constancy over time is unlikely ) , but that in a closed economy leaves out of account the general equilibrium effects discussed in earlier Lectures . |
| 30 | This is not true of literature departments ; what they produce is criticism and scholarship , not literature , leaving out of account the occasional scholar-poet or writer in residence . |