Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] out of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't even eat with people she did n't like , and as for sleeping with anyone — unless she was wildly in love or pissed out of her mind she could n't do it . |
| 2 | It was about four-fifths sweetened whipped cream , to be spooned rather than drunk out of the glasses in which it was served , and one-fifth of wine and whey which had separated from the whip , and which you drank when you reached the end of the cream . |
| 3 | Things which are used once or twice a year — turkey roasting pans , huge party casseroles , picnic baskets , should be rigorously stashed right away , if possible out of the kitchen altogether — under the stairs , in an attic , in the basement or garage in a house ; in some more remote cupboard in a flat or apartment . |
| 4 | Now get your things and clear out of here ! |
| 5 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |
| 6 | And has come with me , and bored out of her mind , and not understood it . |
| 7 | Blank et al have pulled together all those niggling influences which previously were like a series of half-formed sentences and have made something coherent and splendid out of them . |
| 8 | A primly sober pas de deux for two men ( Baryshnikov and John Gardner ) , the Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two by Lar Lubovitch , looked uneasy and undeveloped out of its context in a longer suite . |
| 9 | ‘ I am only sorry you ever were put to it , and glad out of all measure that you came out of it without worse harm . |
| 10 | There are three pines outside the house which spring tall , slender and black out of the watery green grass and are silhouetted against an angry battleship grey sky … |
| 11 | This planet inflates anything it touches so , on the one hand it will make you even more seeringly aware of the flaws in a relationship and , on the other , it will bring the great and good out of an appropriate union . |
| 12 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 13 | And safe out of this town before your master takes it too hard . ’ |
| 14 | Hatim asked me if I could confirm a rumour , circulating in Baghdad , that Odeh , Saddam 's son , had given a birthday party for himself at which he and his 300 guests had all worn purple and drunk out of purple goblets . |
| 15 | Here , in 1781 , there were eight hundred acres of heath and common out of 1,467 acres in the parish as a whole . |
| 16 | This was immense , and hewn out of bare rock , although clothed now with dirt and bushes and rubbish . |
| 17 | Sir Kenneth , for example , set up multi-agency panels to deal with the cautioning of juveniles , designed to keep as many as possible out of the courts . |
| 18 | ‘ You might as well get as much pleasure as possible out of every situation , ’ she said , packing the dishes away . |
| 19 | This depends on many factors but three in particular will influence feelings of wanting to get as much as possible out of the coaching opportunities which you provide : |
| 20 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 21 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 22 | Unnerved and saddened by her bouts of instability , he tried to keep going , spending as much time as possible out of doors and away from her . |
| 23 | I kept as much as possible out of their way . |
| 24 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 25 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 26 | Stewart from Sparbrook says the C S A are men haters who try to get as much as possible out of them . |
| 27 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 28 | But there he was , reaching for familiar things , as we all tend to do when scared out of our brains . |