Example sentences of "out [prep] the [noun sg] box " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fond of his wife in an absent-minded way , especially when she was not nagging at him , so he took a Kleenex out of the kitchen box and went back to her , saying rather hopelessly : ‘ Here , have a Kleenex . ’ |
| 2 | The ratings for the drama starring Sean Bean as Mucky Mellors and Joely Richardson as Lady C. have soared , electricity bosses report a surge in power when the nation tunes in and people who have viewed their video recorder with fear and suspicion since the day it came out of the polystyrene box have discovered the freeze frame feature overnight . |
| 3 | Otley leapt to his feet eager to practise some passion as the strains of ‘ La Paloma ’ came throbbing out of the music box . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Evans was in here and he took something out of the jewel box . |
| 5 | George came out of the call box sounding shaken and pensive . |
| 6 | It 's lit again at the moment , but so far we 've had something like fifteen bulbs stolen , and when that heavy rain comes , it fills the little cups and goes bang and the gentleman today , was busy drilling things out of the fuse box , where I think it had gone again . |
| 7 | A more important Christian observation is to note that laicisation has meant that as institutional Christianity has been forced out of the control box of the modernity machine it has lost its authority . |
| 8 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 9 | The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box ! |
| 10 | Or or out of the reject box . |
| 11 | Then he saw the signalman leaning out of the signal box window , a pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 12 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 13 | As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense . |
| 14 | And er bit misty , but that 's looking out from the signal box , you can just , possibly just about make out there , and at the back erm the er er with the the erm station master 's house etcetera . |
| 15 | And she 'd passed out in the phone box . |
| 16 | I waited for half-an-hour or so , then I went out to the phone box on the quay and rang his home . |
| 17 | Yeah but my done it in the morning go rush out to the post box |
| 18 | That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box . |