Example sentences of "but out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | Jenny went to school at a tiny schoolhouse in the dale attended mostly by farmers ' children , but out of school she had no one at all to play with , so she had to amuse herself as best she could . |
| 3 | He had been going regularly , but out of courtesy . |
| 4 | Early in the morning , in the grey cold light that precedes the rising sun , he positioned himself in trees to the east of the lake but out of sight of it . |
| 5 | But out of sight in the galley , she gripped the rail in front of the cooker to steady herself and choked back tears of rage and frustration . |
| 6 | She suddenly realised that fitzAlan had turned his horse back into the forest , along a parallel course with the river , but out of sight of the small hamlet . |
| 7 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 8 | The old rebellion was squeezed out by the pressure of survival , and the ‘ young ones ’ conformed to create a new world , not out of spiritual charity , but out of silicon chips . |
| 9 | But out of love brought ice-age chill , endless snow wastes where wind tossed smoky columns of snow eighty foot high ; from these mists lumbered a gallery of primitive animals , blood lust and need raging like her soul . |
| 10 | Esau does not come for revenge , but out of love . |
| 11 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 12 | Katherine was indeed aloof , but out of reticence rather than intent . |
| 13 | Or the food in sight but out of reach of her reaching arms . |
| 14 | just peeping down , but out of reach . ) |
| 15 | He put a chimpanzee in a cage and placed a piece of fruit outside the cage so that it was visible , but out of reach . |
| 16 | This produces a strain oscillating with the same frequency as , but out of phase with , the stress . |
| 17 | The application of a sinusoidal stress to a Maxwell element produces a strain with the same frequency as , but out of phase with , the stress . |
| 18 | Yeah , but he does n't have , he does n't have to be noted in the score book , that he was no balled for a , for a beamer , but out of interest perhaps he was letting him er , so Giles there , there , left-hander , played some lovely strokes in the first innings , was n't in for long , then Shaw goes down on his knees there up and outside the old stump , he 's playing backwards , the ball goes through to Russell . |
| 19 | Born in 1964 , but out of production since 1984 , this once all-conquering hero will be re-emerging in late February , ready to do battle with upstart Thunderbirds and other toytown insurgents . |
| 20 | I should be there — for appearance 's sake , as Edward says — but out of earshot if 't is any concern to you ! ’ |
| 21 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 22 | I 'm fed up with waiting but out of town , it 's doing me no good all the way round there right round here some , there 's a home , she 'd have to take it |
| 23 | This particular pilot was an instructor who was in good practice in a K13 two-seater but out of practice in his K6E . |
| 24 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 25 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 26 | Science and technology all too often seemed to overtake the wildest fantasies of Utopian thinkers , plagues of infectious diseases were conquered , people flew not only into air but out into space and landed on the moon ; instant communications brought a " global village " and so on , yet all this progress of science and technology did not bring Utopia . |