Example sentences of "[conj] [det] out of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a good base salary but make more than that out of bonuses , ’ the source said . |
| 2 | A skilful dealer may get considerably more money than that out of the punter by implying , sometimes even saying directly , that this OTC stock was a better buy even than Rolls Royce . |
| 3 | While it is possible to soften this blow by having different tax rates below and above the poverty line , or by having a social dividend that is smaller for those in than those out of work ( the two-tier case ) , once the simplicity and universality of the system is lost , so are most of its advantages . |
| 4 | Her office was now marked by a frieze of officers , two lounging half in and half out of her door , a third a little behind , the attention of all three directed entirely towards her desk . |
| 5 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 6 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 7 | It was another Glory and it had been abandoned , half in and half out of a ditch . |
| 8 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 9 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 10 | " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water . |
| 11 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 12 | Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures . |
| 13 | His right foot , Robert noted , was half in and half out of his slipper . |
| 14 | She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’ |
| 15 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 16 | He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff . |
| 17 | The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board . |
| 18 | At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for him , the lady 's husband had also spotted his illicit signalling from the bedroom and grabbing his machine-gun he went to the window and shot the hang-glider pilot and all out of the sky in a hail of bullets . |
| 20 | And the bridesmaid 's , the little bridesmaid 's jacket are this colour and this colour in print and all out of fabric and erm definitely go for the darker . |
| 21 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 22 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 23 | Although it is assumed that birds have not a highly developed sense of taste , both tits and blackbirds , despite any flamboyant coloration to attract them , recognise Sturmers as worthy of attention , and those out of reach , when harder weather prevails , will , as in former winters , attract both fieldfares and winter-visiting blackcaps . |
| 24 | ‘ This and growing business confidence over the last year should mean better news for jobs and those out of work , ’ she said . |
| 25 | The principle , adopted in 1834 , that wages should not be subsidized had been carried forward in social security legislation , but the margin between the income of those in work and those out of work sometimes made the principle of ‘ less eligibility ’ appear under threat . |
| 26 | Pensioners who have given a lifetime 's service to the nation should not be asked to pay for a T V licence , and those out of work through no fault of their own , except for a government policy . |
| 27 | Those in employment earn a relatively high income , but those out of work will continue to exist at rather low levels of unemployment benefit . |