Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military . |
| 2 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 3 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 4 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 5 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 6 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 8 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 9 | It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far . |
| 10 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 11 | Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ? |
| 12 | It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 14 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 15 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
| 16 | ‘ How could it 'ave jumped out of that geezer 's pocket into me hat ? ’ |