Example sentences of "one out " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lid is extendible and removable and has two zipped pockets , one inside , one out . |
| 2 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 3 | Past experience suggests that some governments , at least , may not be prepared to sit this one out . |
| 4 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 5 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 6 | I needed something special to pull this one out of the fire . |
| 7 | There 's all these buildings and streets out there , but it 's like they 're all empty — you know , like there 's no one out there , just things . |
| 8 | But still I get the feeling there ai n't no one out there . |
| 9 | Difficulties , she told herself , like the wind , will fan a strong flame , but put a weak one out . |
| 10 | He was the odd one out in a gifted family . |
| 11 | He divides his party and his flocks and herds into two , and plans to put one out of sight of the other . |
| 12 | While they were thinking this one out I served them with a summer casserole which Swire Sugden demolished and Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke toyed with absentmindedly . |
| 13 | We found the gypsies about their business : Zylpha washing clothes in the beck , old Katie mending a torn jacket , Jake dismantling two old bicycles and trying to make one good one out of the spare parts , and Rosie , the little riddle-me-ree girl , splashing naked in the water . |
| 14 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 15 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 16 | Masha , shutting her eyes , drew one out and unfolded it . |
| 17 | Jackie pulled another one out of his pocket and all three munched avidly for several minutes . |
| 18 | He simply does n't have a phone so we 'll be sending one out to him very soon . |
| 19 | The odd one out in my list is in many ways the most beguiling . |
| 20 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 21 | ‘ In a speech described as brusque and arrogant by West German sources , ’ reported Anna Tomforde in the Guardian , ‘ British representative Dr Martin Holdgate , the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment ’ said , ‘ We see no point in making heroic efforts at great cost , to control one out of many factors unless there is a reasonable expectation that such control will lead to real improvement in the environment . ’ |
| 22 | I needed a new winter coat , and did not have the skill that Wendy had to make one out of a blanket . |
| 23 | Not taking one out however ( as with Edwin Armstrong , the American who discovered FM radio ) may bring the inventor nothing but misery . ’ |
| 24 | She left one out as both she and the baby dozed ; or she placed the baby on the table and lifted a breast to its mouth . |
| 25 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 26 | I went to my bosses and told them that , in The Wedding Present , there was another one out of the same rough balloon with the potential to be a long-lasting , album-selling , international act . |
| 27 | I 'm getting out for a pee in a minute , so I 'll get one out of the Land Rover if you throw the keys . ’ |
| 28 | Ex-chasers , and one out of a circus down on its luck . |
| 29 | There were two , but she knotted one out of the way . |
| 30 | Odd One Out |