Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Both of them were successful in squeezing money for Education out of the Treasury , although Crosland was forced to do so in a very much more bleak economic climate .
2 Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven .
3 This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record .
4 The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall .
5 Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English .
6 I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it .
7 Harvey got a piece of canvas out of the front of the car and then pike took his overcoat off and they wrapped the coat into the canvas and strapped it up very tight on a long strap , the other end of which they fixed to the belt of Ralph pike 's overalls .
8 , Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has announced plans to take more than 3,000 acres of land out of the green belt in order to facilitate economic regeneration in the area .
9 Mick Feeney , a Barlinnie delegate , seconding the motion , said : ‘ The unit was of great benefit to the service because we could get the ringleaders of trouble out of the system for a while .
10 Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner .
11 I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty .
12 There are exceptions to this I would suggest that very high turn outs in the er local election , local elections in Harlow almost certainly because there was a lot of interest in it press interest because of the great battle in Old Harlow and that appears to have had a spin off effect on turn out in the other wards as well .
13 He got one last bit of mileage out of the Hiss case .
14 A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females .
15 ‘ If there was a death in the family our custom was to take a bit of crepe out to the bee-skeps after sunset and pin it on them .
16 The birds squawked and flapped , and the very top of the bush seemed to be flicked by an invisible hand which knocked a few shreds of leaf out into the air .
17 On the other side of Ayrshire , Ally MacLeod discovered how painfully short his Ayr United side are of becoming genuine challengers for promotion out of the First Division .
18 She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show .
19 In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital .
20 David took two quarter bottles of champagne out of the mini-bar , and collected two tooth mugs .
21 The periods of time out in the open meadow ,
22 So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship .
23 Whether or not the decision was motivated by tenderness towards motorists is hard to tell , but there was certainly some logic in keeping offences of negligence out of the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine when a separate head of manslaughter by gross negligence already existed .
24 ‘ Bill Mishkin , ’ says Bill Saltman , ‘ is a simple Russian boy from way out in the sticks who went through law school and inherited a couple of million from his uncle in the garment trade and could n't add two and two together and get more than four . ’
25 When he heard about Bonanza parking the Fraser girl on ice out in the country he must have figured it was his chance for the big killing .
26 Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours .
27 The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead .
28 The two stars came into the picture with their tongues firmly in their cheeks , determined to wring every moment of fun out of the script .
29 Initially it is likely to get the Sbus versions of Freedom out into the Sparc-compatible market , and says it has already been approached by several of those suppliers .
30 ‘ He has been told that if there is another occasion he will attract an indefinite period of time out of the game .
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