Example sentences of "out [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 2 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 3 | He is drinking soda pop out of a can the same shrill dayglo orange colour as emergency road markings . |
| 4 | ‘ One — ’ he cocked a thumb ‘ — when you 're trying to creep out of a castle no one is asleep . |
| 5 | They will see it as getting in and out of a chair the right way . |
| 6 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 7 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend may like to know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State today set out in a speech the importance of improving and strengthening competition in a range of postal services . |
| 9 | If the squatters are n't out within a day the police can move in . |
| 10 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 11 | He took them out on a spree the night before , just the three of them . |
| 12 | That works out at a dollar an hour which is less than the federal minimum wage . ’ |
| 13 | Oh I was out at a school a lot . |
| 14 | Ironically , before Monday night 's murder in north Belfast , the only other woman to be killed by terrorists this year was singled out at a flat a short distance away . |
| 15 | The inspectorate in 1990 could only visit , according to the Low Pay Review , some 7 per cent of firms , which averages out at a visit every 14 years . |