Example sentences of "out of [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After school Rose loved to draw her out , to tease out of her reckless opinions and to watch her quick mind wheel and tack as she strained to defend what was usually insupportable . |
2 | In a scurrilous attack on the Queen , the divorced father-of-two adds : ‘ She must get out of her gilded cage and realise it is 1992 , not 1772 . ’ |
3 | It was Mrs Stocks who brought Jess out of her uncomfortable thoughts , saying : water for his back , Jess . |
4 | Jacques Devraux watched in silence as she stepped out of her sodden clothing . |
5 | She leaned out of her front bay-window and gave him a shout . |
6 | So minute are the threads binding a good member in a rural constituency that a woman can run out of her front door waving a cake of lavender soap . |
7 | Jess waited for her to make something out of her small success , but she did n't and sat with folded hands looking into the ever-changing flames licking round the coal . |
8 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
9 | Light dawns on the small Year Niner 's face as she hastens to explain that the stain on the front of her school blouse is jam that has squirted out of her break-time doughnut , and not blood at all . |
10 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
11 | Impatiently she struggled out of her blue gaberdine suit and began to rip open the thick , shiny bags and the gleaming boxes . |
12 | ‘ Eh ? ’ said Bella , surprised out of her personal nightmare : the one where she sat , in a big room , unable to move , imprisoned in her crippled body , surrounded by a sea of senile faces , while a pitying young woman stuck a baby 's cup between her toothless gums so that she could suck lukewarm tea out of it . |
13 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
14 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
15 | Last February , Georgina Meinetzhargen , a student at an Oxford tutorial college , died after falling out of her flat window . |
16 | And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity . |
17 | She was finding difficulty in seeing out of her right eye . |
18 | These were wound in and out of her long hair . |
19 | It was Adele 's indignant gasp that wrenched Isabel out of her frozen state . |
20 | She put down her cup and took a tissue out of her trendy cardigan and started dabbing at her skirt . |
21 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
22 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
23 | Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle . |
24 | Rory stretched her arms high above her head , groaning pleasurably as the knots eased out of her aching muscles . |
25 | Maybe something pretty wonderful had come out of her shattered dreams for one perfect , shining summer after all . |
26 | Taking a leaf out of her newest role model Joan Collins ’ book , Kylie never again emerged through a customs hall before spending as long as was needed to make herself ready for the waiting world . |
27 | Fashion — one silly brainless bitch trying to outdo the others because she 's bored out of her tiny mind and is n't interested in anything other than the way she looks . ’ |
28 | He decided to try to shake Sien out of her black mood by acting angrily , responding abnormally to what he saw as abnormality . |
29 | Out of her black handbag she brings a packet of Silk Cut cigarettes . |
30 | She could see no way out of her present despair . |