Example sentences of "their [noun pl] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years later the Italians , in another unprovoked attack , used poison gas to ensure victory and shot many of their prisoners out of hand . |
| 2 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 3 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 4 | ‘ People who take their bikes out at weekends are terrified at the number of potholes , bumps and increasing traffic levels on roads . ’ |
| 5 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 6 | All too often , however , we see him angry , hurt , suspicious of friends as much as enemies , rarely grateful to those who stuck their necks out on his behalf , working obsessively at powerfully emotional works while seemingly ignoring the emotions generated by the domestic chaos around him . |
| 7 | There had been the slightest tremor in Alice 's voice ; she had been going to say , " We all spent the evening " but remembered in time that " all " might not be prepared to stick their necks out for Jim , if " all " could be reached and warned in time . |
| 8 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 9 | The locals often plant their vegetables out among the olive groves and vineyards and find all flourish happily together in the rich volcanic soil . |
| 10 | On that occasion he had been ten years old As children between the wars , Yanto and his friends spent most of their Summers out in the estuary between tides . |
| 11 | No. 3 was directly opposite the palace , only a minute away , but he was stopped twice by tourists whose thick German accents he could n't begin to understand , and then by having to settle a violent argument between two drivers who had managed to crash while manoeuvring their cars out of their parking spaces . |
| 12 | The extent of the disaster was kept from the remaining drivers , particularly Levagh 's team-mates Moss and Fangio but at two o'clock in the morning , orders were received by the Mercedes team-manager Alfred Neubauer , direct from the German factory , to pull all their cars out of the race . |
| 13 | They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself . |
| 14 | It 's not the business of social services staff , from directors downwards , to pull their chestnuts out of the fire by disguising the facts . |
| 15 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 16 | It gives them plenty of cover and also somewhere to rest with their heads out of the water but their bodies submerged . |
| 17 | The earless lizards of the southwestern United States have a large , blood-filled sinus in their heads which , when they pop their heads out of a cave , becomes heated by the Sun and can be distributed throughout the body . |
| 18 | People put their heads out of windows and saw the tall white-faced man and the little girl , with their arms around each other . |
| 19 | But first we stand in line to use the bathroom : people popping their heads out of doorways to see how big the queue is , me letting Rachel in by herself . |
| 20 | I was down there serenading my heart out and they all started to pop their heads out of the window . |
| 21 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 22 | There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window . |
| 23 | A more effective cry is ‘ Fire ’ because everyone sticks their heads out in case it is their house or car that is about to be burnt down . |
| 24 | Now go on , go home and make yourself even more beautiful than you already are — knock their eyes out at the party . ’ |
| 25 | He wo n't be ready till next season , but I 'm really going to knock their eyes out with this fellow . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Can we ask all preservationists to keep their eyes out for anyone trying to pass on these parts and a reward will be offered to anyone supplying information . |
| 27 | Wardens in tin helmets poked their noses out of sandbagged alarm posts to watch Charles and his CO striding by . |
| 28 | Most adult male bears spend their lives out on the pack ice , living mainly on seals . |
| 29 | Ca n't , ca n't please their youngsters out of thirty pound shirts |
| 30 | When we got him out and he felt refreshed and better about it , he also felt worse because he realized the harm he had done to other youngster and he set about , therefore , trying to help other parents rescue their youngsters out of it . |