Example sentences of "to step out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although it was my health I was considering , and no one else 's , it was still difficult to step out on my own and leap the bounds of convention .
2 According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL .
3 For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) .
4 At the end of the first public showing of her new collections Lisa was obliged by the uproar of cheering from the crowd to step out on stage and take a bow .
5 Anyway , it 's been in my mind to step out on my own for some time now .
6 ‘ Mrs Giraud has asked us to tell you that she had to step out for a short while , but to make yourself at home , ’ the receptionist had informed her .
7 As the expedition nears the summit of the world 's highest mountain , base camp manager Nick Stevenson joined the campaign to get local people to step out for health .
8 He felt a need to discover who he was , and to write directly about that , and about his books , to step out of the shadows .
9 The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party .
10 Jacob 's talk of blessing invites us to step out of the demon myth and fairy story , back into a land with which we have grown familiar , where human beings bump not into demons , but into God himself .
11 ‘ People just like the idea of us being in love , ’ he sighed at the thought of going over ground yet again as he explained the need for him to step out of Kylie 's tiny shadow .
12 Although Mexico was not an OPEC member in November 1984 it cut exports in line with OPEC reductions to help maintain prices and has generally taken care not to step out of line , though it has stated that it would act unilaterally to defend its market position .
13 To step out of bed on to the cold lino , and to begin dressing and shivering , took considerable courage .
14 To step out of the curriculum centres , the institutes or the ministries into the schools of Africa provides such a contrast that it is easy to caricature the differences .
15 Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose .
16 Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line .
17 The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it .
18 TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions .
19 In simple language , it is much harder for our members , coming from a close-knit professional community , to step out of line . ’
20 It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do .
21 The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of .
22 RHODRI JONES will bid to step out of the shadow of elder brother Robert , the Welsh scrum-half , when Neath tackle Australia tomorrow .
23 The funeral directors ' lobby is very strong ; I suppose it was naïve of me not to have realized before that they would clamp down hard on any wholesaler who dared to step out of line and supply the public direct .
24 And , of course , we 're always ready to step out of he background and be with you on site .
25 IRISH singer Enya refused to step out of her house for two months because she was depressed — about her hair .
26 BBC cricket correspondent Jon Agnew answered a Leicester SOS to step out of retirement and finished with remarkable figures of 1-31 in 12 overs .
27 This time I waited to make sure before I ventured out on the jetty , but it was Neil 's boat , and Neil himself standing ready to step out of it as it nosed in alongside the landing-place .
28 Project Video adds a new and exciting dimension to the learning experience by inviting the student to step out of the classroom into the world outside .
29 A bid to step out of her husband 's shadow ?
30 He favours careful risk assessment , which should enable regulators to concentrate on those ( like Maxwell ) who look most likely to step out of line .
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