Example sentences of "out from his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later , he starts a series of shuddering contractions and tiny miniature sea-horses shoot out from his pouch . |
| 2 | She saw the man with the fat-barrelled gun held out from his shoulder . |
| 3 | North 's work that he tore out from his diary the corner of a page on which he had written North 's name , and threw it away . |
| 4 | Later this month Sam Torrance will set out from his home in Largs to embark on no less than his 20th season on the PGA European Tour . |
| 5 | His eyes stuck out from his head like little squab knobs |
| 6 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 7 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 8 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 9 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 10 | The defendant was arrested when he again opened the door to find out from his friend where he was being taken . |
| 11 | But I found out from his friend that his name is Billy Davis , formerly from Donaldson Street in Anfield . |
| 12 | He moved like flowing mercury , out from his shelter and sliding along the wall toward the door … |
| 13 | He tried to resist the voice — to shut it out from his mind — to will himself towards his destination again — towards the light . |
| 14 | THERE has been much comment in Blackpool about the way John Smith claps his hands , elbows out from his side so that his arms form a bar across his chest , hands thundering into each other with short , sharp smacks . |
| 15 | Ember pivoted , gun well out from his side . |
| 16 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 17 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 18 | He can never see anything in front of him because of all the smoke he belches out from his nose and mouth , but that does n't bother him . |
| 19 | The tradition , as related by Butcher , is that in 1209 ( the date popularly associated with the introduction of bull-baiting into England ) , William de Warrenne , Lord of Stamford , on looking out from his castle walls , saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows . |
| 20 | If a portfolio manager is considering investing in a company for 5 years , how much should he be prepared to pay if he finds out from his broker that the company is expected to perform as follows : . |
| 21 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 22 | Bored and fed up , he was straining his smarting eyes to pierce the swirling murk to keep the fire escape in view , when his attention was drawn to his colleague moving out from his surveillance position . |
| 23 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 24 | Under his arm he carried a large portfolio of drawings and she saw that he had pencils sticking out from his pocket . |
| 25 | Jones made this point by taking a small flashlight out from his pocket and making a strong cautionary comment that he would be ‘ extremely surprised if enough power could be generated by the process to power even a flashlight . ’ |
| 26 | No one knew quite what he did ; sometimes the sounds of country-and-western music drifted out from his study , sometimes he emerged smelling strongly of alcohol , but mostly , judging from the titanic snores that shook the wall of the staffroom , he slept . |
| 27 | ON day two of MP-TV Nicholas Ridley was scheduled to make a live appearance before the cameras — or , as it turned out from his speech , a dead appearance . |
| 28 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |