Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 2 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 3 | The narrow straps seemed barely able to hold her full bosom , which threatened to spill out of the boned bodice with every movement she made . |
| 4 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
| 5 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 6 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 7 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 8 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 9 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 10 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 11 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 12 | What had started out as a bad day had suddenly become brighter . |
| 13 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 14 | But what had started out as a dream come true had , within hours of their leaving England , turned into a nightmare . |
| 15 | ‘ Christ … ’ said Cardiff in a hollow voice , when he saw what had happened out in the storm . |