Example sentences of "out of [pron] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Fran tried to step past him , but he just stood where he was , making no attempt to get out of her way while he continued to study her in a way that made her suddenly self-conscious .
2 He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time .
3 She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year .
4 He stepped out of her way and she took a deep breath as she ran to the door and slammed it shut behind her .
5 Her approach to academic seminars would seem to confirm some of the claims that she was totally out of her depth when it came to discussing the new discoveries which she had allegedly made .
6 The nun 's eyes seemed to be popping out of her head as she again wielded the ruler .
7 All that went completely out of her head when she went to buy the morning papers and read John Wainfleet 's assertion of an affair between Maureen MacQuillan and Cecil Hunter-Blair .
8 I mean I did n't realise cos she had these lumps coming out of her chest and I thought she had cancer .
9 It was hard to keep the caress out of her voice as she said his name .
10 It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ?
11 Graham 's appearance brought her out of her reverie and they walked the short distance to the station , where she approached the information desk to ask for directions to the stationmaster 's office .
12 The voice startled her out of her reverie and she turned to see Candy in the doorway , her pert features anxious .
13 She had short , bobbed hair , and she swept a lock from out of her eyes before she answered .
14 She was tucking in the sheets at the wall side , and blowing the hair out of her eyes as she reached over .
15 Lisabeth was out of her flat before I 'd closed the front door behind me .
16 You know you know Sonia' been kicked out of her house and she 's in a children 's home somewhere or something .
17 I think she 's erm they like take so much out of her pension but she 's not gon na need owt any way and then erm I think government or whatever put rest .
18 No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she regretted them .
19 Then she found that she had no breath , for all the breath went out of her body when he tossed her down on to her mattress .
20 Oh yes she saw the blood starting to come out of her neck and he caught her
21 My mother undoubtedly had been counting , but she would have put the numbers out of her mind since they were evidence , at the very least , of instability on the part of her future son-in-law .
22 She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard .
23 Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now .
24 A Downpatrick jury acquitted the trainee officer of murder , believing she was out of her mind when she attacked love rival Penny with a razor-sharp blade at Drumkeeragh Forest , outside Ballynahinch in March 1991 .
25 He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away .
26 Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber .
27 She was way out of her league and she knew it .
28 The fear propelled her out of her stillness and she ran down the hill .
29 They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out .
30 He made no effort to move out of their way and they made none to speak .
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