Example sentences of "and out [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 She will be stabled at night and out at grass during the day in the winter .
2 That was traumatic enough , but it left the ten-year-old having to get himself up and out to school in the morning .
3 The vapour , from a reaction kettle containing aniline and dichloronitrobenzene , was carried off-site , across the Humber estuary and out to sea by the prevailing wind .
4 Like forms that briefly flicker in and out of existence in the heart of a flame , the worshippers danced to a staccato rhythm , their bodies jerking sharply yet smoothly in the infernal light of the crackling fires .
5 The mayor 's stall is in the choir , so at the appropriate moment the civic party rise and are escorted from the nave to the choir — and out of sight of the members of the congregation .
6 He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire .
7 The vicarage , when she found it , was of grey brick in the middle of a flat field , far from the village and out of sight of the church .
8 The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being .
9 Looking over the oak rails , I could see the gallery floor and , further below , the ground-floor area , the spectacular chimney continuing upward and out of sight above the sloping-beamed ceiling .
10 Then with his head low and his wings cast disconsolately down , Woil dropped to the floor of the cage , put a talon in the meat that the Man had dropped there when Creggan had made his attack near by , and pulled it back and out of sight in the cage 's shelter .
11 ‘ Again , in the event that planning permission is granted , they have indicated their intention of tunnelling into the mountain from behind , at a point which is uninhabited and out of sight from the road at least ’ .
12 Most of our panel do the job on a semi-voluntary basis , mostly for the love of the hobby , and out of concern for the welfare of fish in general .
13 In and out of holes in the soft cliff face they darted : forked tails , sandy brown backs with a brown band dividing white throat and white belly .
14 More subtle but equally important changes were the cleaning and straightening of water courses , the ploughing up of herb-rich grassland , and the construction of modern farm buildings , out of scale and out of character with the traditional landscape .
15 For three months she was in and out of plaster as the tendons slowly heeled .
16 Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance .
17 But cut off from God his source and out of relationship with the Trinity and the angels , that glory is almost extinct .
18 This ability of DNA to cut and splice , to jump in and out of chromosomes at the drop of a hat , is one of the more exciting facts that have come to light since the first edition of this book was published .
19 At the same time , however , increasing concern was being expressed both in and out of government at the social costs of reform .
20 er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing ,
21 As increasing numbers of families experience several of these events at the same time , and out of sequence of the normal family life cycle , we should be reviewing practice , services , support networks and training to accommodate such changes .
22 A stance which was appropriate for the Age of Brezhnev and Galtieri now seems out of date and out of touch with the spirit of the times .
23 In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world .
24 Does my right hon. Friend agree that recent developments have underlined the fact that the Shops Act 1950 is illogical , out of date , rarely enforced and out of touch with the reality of the 1990s ?
25 Yesterday Mr Kinnock presented a picture of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ .
26 ‘ She is out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people .
27 They are impossible , immoral , and out of step with the whole history of salvation .
28 It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether .
29 Everything is overblown and inflated and out of control in the film business . ’
30 He charges in and out of shops with the same patter : ‘ Bonjour , a va ?
  Next page