Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 2 | Pilot David Moore , 47 , of Downend Horsley , Glos , was flying too low to pull out of a loop in front of horrified crowds , the South Manchester coroner heard . |
| 3 | Parry has turned down an offer to play in the World Matchplay and with it , an automatic £12,500 reward , and has also decided to pull out of a couple of rich Japanese tournaments , so that he can play again next week in the BMW International . |
| 4 | THE Ulster Unionists were having urgent talks with the US Consulate in Belfast today before deciding whether to pull out of a meeting with prominent Irish-Americans . |
| 5 | we have joined with other organisations and persuaded the World Bank to pull out of a number of projects that threaten to destroy forests . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 8 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 9 | It should be noted , however , that there are only two miracles where it states that Jesus healed out of a sense of compassion or pity ( Mark 1:41 ; Luke 7:13 ) . |
| 10 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 11 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 12 | Its acquisition of Crocker National Bank in California in 1980 , the most expensive mistake in recent financial history , stands out among a catalogue of disasters . |
| 13 | Hill , these tunes leap out from a radio like recent Def Leppard , Nelson and Aerosmith singles , and once you 've got airplay , you 've got America . |
| 14 | Hill , these tunes leap out from a radio like recent Def Leppard , Nelson and Aerosmith singles , and once you 've got airplay , you 've got America . |
| 15 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 16 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 17 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 18 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 19 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 20 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 21 | The second ring was also slung out of a window after a row . |
| 22 | Back-to-front Unix house Mt Xinu Inc , Berkeley , California has come out with a version of the Mach 3.0 microkernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University as an add-on to its Mach386 product : it runs on Intel 80386 and 80486-based AT-bus computer systems and provides complete Mach 3.0 microkernel source code , a complete build environment which enables users that do not have a detailed knowledge of Carnegie Mellon University system development tools to modify and rebuild the Mach 3.0 kernel , a binary version of a BSD server which makes it possible to run the Mach 3.0 kernel and the BSD server in place of the standard integrated 2.5 Mach kernel provided with Mach386 , source code for many system-specific utilities , which have been modified to operate with Mach 3.0 , and a source-code example of a simple Unix-like server . |
| 23 | The Brussels-based Standards Promotion & Application Group — SPAG — has come out with a set of documentation written specifically to give clear descriptions of what Open Systems Interconnection products actually do , and which of their features actually lie within the OSI standard of interoperability . |
| 24 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 25 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 26 | He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him . |
| 27 | About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low-margin and loss-making businesses . |
| 28 | This example of one case discussion , lifted out of a sequence of weekly meetings , may appear a laborious way of achieving small gains , consuming time which teachers , pressed as they are , can little afford . |
| 29 | Both , according to the latest figures conjured out of a hat by the French , have just over 35 per cent of the market . |
| 30 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |