Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] out as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was so exhausted with cold and emotion that his laugh came out as a foolish titter . |
| 2 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
| 3 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 4 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 5 | One sizeable group pulled out as a direct result of government policy , however : the savings and loans , or thrifts . |
| 6 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 7 | Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper and she had to clear her throat . |
| 8 | My idea is to get the whole ballet worked out as a mere skeleton , and then embroider it when the cast know it . ’ |
| 9 | The long-standing idea that the Earth started out as a molten mass , gradually cooled and shrank to its present size ( a theory that still had adherents well into the 1950s ) , had to be abandoned . |