Example sentences of "[verb] out in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lean , dark-skinned , and ancient and wizened as the baccala , the salt cod pegged out in the harbour to dry . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're confident that the sheer quality of our children 's books will win out in the medium term , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But , as Jessop shows , by insisting on the plurality of forces around the state and also arguing that the ruling class must always win out in any politics which flow from this conflict . |
| 4 | Malcolmson ( 1984 : 126 ) argues that ‘ an essential feature of the world Williamson is interested in [ … ] is not one in which one can simply assume that economic efficiency will win out in the end ’ . |
| 5 | Look at this lovely picture of this High Commissioner in Sri Lanka who 's been booted out in his Morris Minor . |
| 6 | And where Carole lives out in Earlswood , down the lanes she lives round there as well . |
| 7 | We 've got this erm I actually do n't know why he 's got this nickname but there 's this guy who lives out in er and he 's got the nickname Seamus O'Reilly . |
| 8 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 9 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 10 | There can be no doubt that the buckle-end of a belt could be a formidable weapon , but in fact the belts were often pricked out in fancy patterns or embellished with metal studs in much the same way that modern motor-bike boys adorn their jackets with stud designs . |
| 11 | Usually his anger seeped out in irritation ; just occasionally his partial defence broke down and he emptied in an explosion of fury . |
| 12 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 13 | Kerly bows out in tears |
| 14 | It should fall out in one piece . |
| 15 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , 1993 will see a number of opportunities opening out in both new geographical markets in South East Asia and West Africa and also as a result of our recently introduced Orion satellite positioning system . |
| 17 | FERGIE FLOPS OUT IN DRAMA |
| 18 | Here Mr Malik stepped back with a flourish , and Robert found he was walking out in front of the whole school , his heart thumping , his mind a complete blank . |
| 19 | Mr Salmond argued that each of the three opposition parties would vote with the Government during the passage of the Maastricht Bill , and warned against ‘ walking out in the huff ’ at every disagreement . |
| 20 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |
| 21 | Fortunately , though , the eruption petered out in July 1973 before irrevocable damage had been done . |
| 22 | But they petered out in the maze of corridors . |
| 23 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 24 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 25 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 26 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 27 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 28 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 29 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 30 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |