Example sentences of "the [noun sg] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their aim was to drive the majority out of their homeland . |
| 2 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 3 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 4 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |
| 5 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 6 | It seems to rot the backbone out of good men . ’ |
| 7 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 8 | He had taken the bulb out of its socket in the telephone booth , nervous about being seen . |
| 9 | I like the Fat Slags because they scare the shit out of men . |
| 10 | They 're obsessed by the shit out of which we 're shaped ( surgery ) , the shit that could befall us ( horrible accidents ) , the shit in our souls ( the drives and impulses we suppress and expel in order to constitute ourselves as normal , but which sometimes break free in perversion or psychosis ) . |
| 11 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm glad I got whacked , I 'm surprised the guy did n't beat the shit out of me , rightfully so . |
| 13 | We are not in the habit of issuing personal threats but that was such a vicious slur that we 'll kick the shit out of him . |
| 14 | ‘ It still scares the shit out of me . |
| 15 | I have big hands and I need to be able to grab onto something and bend the shit out of those strings . |
| 16 | They retailed around £38-£45 , depending on the model , and for sound kicked the shit out of my Levin . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's when you can go , ‘ That guy knows exactly what he is and that 's exactly what he 's going for , ’ and everybody just loves the shit out of it because of that . |
| 18 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 19 | I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’ |
| 20 | Listen , I 'll go in tomorrow and kick the shit out of the fellows who did it . ’ |
| 21 | So he took it and tore the shit out of it , and made it as ratty as possible , ’ says DiCillo . |
| 22 | They have a lot of songs , accompanied by dubbed-up cartoon backgrounds that irritate the shit out of you when laid end-to-end like this . |
| 23 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 24 | The news filtered back to his father , who was unremitting in his insistence on academic excellence and career worthiness : ‘ The old man was wild about this and he used to kick the shit out of me . |
| 25 | ‘ To scare the shit out of the creeps opposing our offers to modernize their industries . ’ |
| 26 | Mike was silent and withdrawn that evening , and just after ‘ appel ’ he beat the shit out of Macier who had put his feet on Mike 's blankets . |
| 27 | As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me . |
| 28 | You frightened the shit out of me . ’ |
| 29 | It 's a piece of sound theatre designed to scare the shit out of his companion , waiting his turn on the front-room floor . |
| 30 | That fish was n't scheduled to beat the shit out of Doug . |