Example sentences of "out [prep] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 2 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 3 | Obviously there must be a third type , hovering somewhere in the middle , but you will be able to work this out for yourself by considering the following characteristics of the two extremes . |
| 4 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 5 | Let us hope that these two threatening elements in our society — the schoolgirls and the police — will continue to slog it out between themselves without disturbing the rest of us . |
| 6 | Rage drained out of her with numbing speed , leaving her empty and cold . |
| 7 | For a while she raged , inarticulate in her grief , rushing about the room uncontrollably , smashing and breaking , the pent-up anger pouring out of her in grunting , shrieking torrents . |
| 8 | He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days . |
| 9 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 10 | If you find yourself in this difficulty , first try to get out of it by using only compatible drives . |
| 11 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 12 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 13 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 14 | So , so the people that are not making any money out of it by doing it are selling it to them very cheap so it is their own fault ! |
| 15 | It can take months for the violence to subside , they take it out on themselves by punching the walls or scratching their wrists . |
| 16 | People in Lebanon told me : ‘ The Israelis failed to stifle the uprising in the occupied territories , so they take it out on us by threatening to invade Lebanon again . ’ |
| 17 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 18 | Section 120(3) makes it an offence for a promoter or participant to receive any payment or the benefit of any payments which some other participant is induced to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments or other benefits for introducing other persons into the scheme . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
| 20 | Robyn walked forward into the brightly lit , ultra-modern kitchen as purposefully as she could manage and took the mug of steaming coffee he held out to her with shaking hands . |
| 21 | This may not always be on a personal level — it could be in your work when you make an inner stand refusing to accept what is dished out to you by shutting that inner door . |