Example sentences of "out of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ . |
| 32 | Poor cutlery will have tiny burrs inside the fork prongs where it has been stamped out of the sheet of metal . |
| 33 | The plane bumped to a halt , the engine coughed and died , and two figures in leather flying helmets swung out of the open cockpit and came towards them arm in arm . |
| 34 | Peggy stood up and slipped out of the tent into the bright August afternoon . |
| 35 | Something in her face , in her eyes , in the clenched line of her jaw , had made him hurry out of the tent after her . |
| 36 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |
| 37 | A tall thin man came out of the shadows at the bottom of the stone steps . |
| 38 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 39 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 40 | The titles of my lectures were all the same , but my name appeared beneath only four out of the five of them . |
| 41 | He hurriedly ushered me out of the room . |
| 42 | I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room . |
| 43 | We all filed out of the assembly hall . |
| 44 | I shook her off and staggered out of the office , down the stairs and into the lobby . |
| 45 | I stumbled out of the hotel and into the middle of the road , narrowly missing being killed by a taxi . |
| 46 | Out of the window I could see darkness falling . |
| 47 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 48 | She blew it and at least we 've given her somewhere out of the cold . |
| 49 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 50 | This done we made our way out of the restaurant . |
| 51 | ‘ Well , it gets me out of the house . ’ |
| 52 | I got some phone numbers out of the Salvation Army yesterday . |
| 53 | When positive news did come , it again seemed to arrive out of the blue . |
| 54 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 55 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 56 | Out of the woods |
| 57 | Ripen marrows by raising them out of the foliage and resting on bricks |
| 58 | Out of the woods |
| 59 | Thereafter , prune when you see long growths taking the goodness out of the tree ; in late summer cut back all whippy shoots to 4in , then in February or March cut back again to two buds . |
| 60 | This prevents nitrates being washed out of the soil in winter . |