Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of her contribution to household expenses she had unobtrusively helped her mother by buying necessities for her brothers , who seemed to grow out of clothes and shoes by the week . |
| 2 | The funeral directors ' lobby is very strong ; I suppose it was naïve of me not to have realized before that they would clamp down hard on any wholesaler who dared to step out of line and supply the public direct . |
| 3 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 4 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 5 | Stephen Gardiner , who was Secretary to King Henry VIII , and Edward Foxe , the King 's Almoner , lodged there in attendance on the King , who had moved out of London . |
| 6 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 7 | Meanwhile they replenished their land-holdings by conquest and by the confiscation of the estates of those who had fallen out of favour : rebels and criminals . |
| 8 | ITV had a good traditional Western on , in which the grizzled old sheriff ( played by a clapped-out Hollywood actor who had kept out of politics ) taught the rules of the game and his homespun philosophy to his tearaway young deputy ( played by a reformed pop star ) . |
| 9 | The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work . |
| 10 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 11 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 12 | Richard H. Truly , 50 , was appointed on April 12 , 1989 , as acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ; James C. Fletcher , a previous administrator who had come out of retirement to guide NASA after the 1986 Challenger disaster [ see pp. 34266-68 ] , had left the post on April 8 . |
| 13 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 14 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 15 | The policy of the labour exchanges towards boys who wanted to come out of farming was to refuse them alternative employment . |