Example sentences of "drop out [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems .
2 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
3 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
4 In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia .
5 Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division .
6 Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something .
7 The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round .
8 In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade .
9 SHOULD Selkirk fail to make the grade and drop out for a fourth spell in Division II , they will at least on this occasion descend with honour .
10 Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up .
11 Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled .
12 WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ?
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