Example sentences of "but out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 2 | Thus was a popular nationalism created , not by intention or design , but out of the exigencies of the struggle . |
| 3 | ‘ But out of the research came the notion of using sugar as a raw material for all kinds of products — for making alcohol , plastics , pesticides and detergents . ’ |
| 4 | In her place I would have been not only up the wall but out of the door ! |
| 5 | Chanel has published advertisements of Claudia Schiffer wearing long dresses , but out of the studios Miss Schiffer also wears short skirts . |
| 6 | But out of the 76 trusts , 35 had invested portfolio yields of 6% or over ( 22 having 7% or over ) . |
| 7 | No ordinary carriage , not subject to any hasty conversion to ensure its usefulness , but out of the railway factory yards of Leningrad and designed only for transporting the prisoners . |
| 8 | I affected to become social with the others but out of the corner of my mind — while I played for the others the part of a poor miner 's son who was puzzled , but delighted by the attention these lovely people paid to him — I had her under close observation … |
| 9 | Keep collections visible but out of the way of day-to-day living : deep windowsills and cabinets are ideal , or tables that are n't used regularly . |
| 10 | And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . |
| 11 | The surgery was equipped with the usual furniture but out of the best catalogue : desk and swivel chair for the doctor , a couple of hygienic-looking chairs for patient and friend , drugs and instrument cabinet , couch , wash basin , and glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 12 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 13 | but out of the ninety |
| 14 | Not even defeat by an American team whose followers barely understand the rules will persuade him that he has nowhere left to go but out of the national manager 's chair . |
| 15 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 16 | Immediately behind and above the waterfall , the sloping hillside had become a fifty-foot smooth rocky cliff , so that the water poured not only over the edge above , but out into the pool , leaving a ledge along which Bill Robins now beckoned me . |
| 17 | The girl slipped away , not to the bushes but out through the curled iron gates to the earth lane that bordered the river . |
| 18 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 19 | But out on the wide , untidy expanse behind the drying green and the wash houses the children must have forgotten , for we play tig and hide-and-seek in the long grass , running about in gangs of indiscriminate age and religion . |
| 20 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
| 21 | Off the water the sailors need a bit of help rigging up , but out on the water they can compete alongside anyone . |
| 22 | But out on the beat officers say more support is desperately needed . |
| 23 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 24 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 25 | No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up . |