Example sentences of "out of [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bit of the UN charter that tells nosey parkers to keep out of other countries ' business is less respected than it was , as Saddam Hussein knows to his cost . |
| 2 | When the States invaded Panama , the typical reaction was ‘ why do n't we keep our noses out of other people 's business ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Stop making a mock and a jeer out of other people 's business . ’ |
| 4 | When you have to take money out of other people 's pockets ( which is what profit-making is all about ) you can do it either by inadvertently alienating people or by deliberately getting them on your side . |
| 5 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 6 | Very actressy — flinging plates , storming out of other people 's dinner parties . |
| 7 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 8 | Loot was a farce , although it was not about people running in and out of other people 's bedrooms , in and out of coffins more likely . |
| 9 | Taking the bread out of honest folk 's mouths . |
| 10 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 11 | With 500 kilograms of dog , about the same quantity of dog food , sledges and kit , plus the four of us on board , we made our way out of Odd Knut 's drive . |
| 12 | a long spell out of even dreaming 's shadow |
| 13 | Secondly , as we have seen , by allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on British communications ( as it does from the Morwenstow station in Cornwall which scoops up everything passing in and out of British Telecom 's ground station at Goonhilly ) , it allows British ministers to claim that GCHQ does not monitor calls within Britain . |
| 14 | It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | There are 40,000 or so more-or-less Slav-speakers on the Greek side — the Greeks will not be specific — out of Greek Macedonia 's total population of 2.25m . |