Example sentences of "out of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A black bat struggled out of a crack in the bar in front of him , and his eyes bugged . |
| 2 | Last year Ian made this bungy jump out of a balloon at more than ten thousand feet . |
| 3 | THE VERY first line of Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - ‘ What a dump ! ’ — is spoken by the play 's feminine protagonist in a parody of the classic Bette Davis manner : an ( imaginary ) cigarette held imperiously at eye-level , eyes blazing like the headlamps of an automobile , bee-sting lips enunciating each word ( including the ‘ a ’ ) for absolutely maximum effect , almost as if they had been snipped out of a newspaper headline by a writer of anonymous letters . |
| 4 | ‘ We had to find six words out of a newspaper . |
| 5 | We always do everything out of a newspaper for English . ’ |
| 6 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 7 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 8 | Norman Cook will never be spoken about in the same breath as Jazzie B , yet ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is one of the hardest records you will ever hear seeping out of a Ford Escort at the traffic lights . |
| 9 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 10 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 11 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 12 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 13 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 14 | A PIG farmer took his animals out of a quarantine zone designed to contain a highly contagious disease , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | A PIG farmer took his animals out of a quarantine zone de signed to contain a highly contagious disease , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 17 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 18 | Bibbs ' effort was cancelled by Larder 's second try on the hour , Steadman managing to hit an upright with the kick from under the posts , and although Knapper was successful with two further penalties , David Plange tied the scores when Gary French squeezed a pass out of a tackle on the line 12 minutes from the end . |
| 19 | But three minutes after the interval Leeds skipper Ellery Hanley took Schofield 's short pass to spin out of a tackle and go over for the try , goaled by Gallagher , which put Leeds in front for the first and only time in the game . |
| 20 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 21 | Last year , out of a school population of 220,000 , just 113 pupils were permanently expelled . |
| 22 | His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe . |
| 23 | It was a time when a bare ankle could not be shot stepping out of a robe for the implication would be ‘ nakedness ’ , the consequence ‘ sex ’ and the inevitable result — the destruction of the nation . |
| 24 | We had jacket potatoes right , which is literally mouldy and baked hard so you 'd get about out of a jacket potato you 'd probably get about that much potato and the rest is just skin and mould and hardness quiche which is just like processed cheese and processed eggs and everything you can imagine just total packet mix |
| 25 | Thank you Chairman , I despair sometimes when I listen to , to everybody trying to make points out of a discussion like this . |
| 26 | Greenberg claimed that ‘ modernist art developed out of a past without gap or break , and wherever it ends up it will never stop being intelligible in terms of the continuity of art ’ ( Krauss 1985a , pp. 1–8 ) . |
| 27 | Out of a pit . |
| 28 | Indeed , out of a pit . |
| 29 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 30 | I said to him we made her a cup of coffee out of a teapot that was bought and she says she was talking about it . |