Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] out [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A few too many drinks , and Lee Marvin was often ready to come out fighting , as director Sam Peckinpah found out during a party to celebrate the finish of filming on a TV special , The Losers . |
2 | He stood by the cab with the door held open , and Lucy climbed out in a daze . |
3 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
4 | Visitors Cholmondeley held out for a draw on 130 for seven . |
5 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
6 | After the meeting , Flashman slipped out of a side exit to the hotel 's underground car park — but not before he had pinned another photographer , Paul Welford , against a wall . |
7 | IN the midst of this routine entertainment Alan Shearer stood out like a supernova . |
8 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
9 | Morris laid out on a table spotted with spilt coffee , invitations from Peter Stothard , Andrew Neil , Granada Television and TV-AM . |
10 | David Kennedy , prosecuting , said Kevin Fripp went out with a relative of the spinster , from whom he learned of the cash . |
11 | The following morning , Connor went out for a stroll before breakfast . |
12 | Aussie skipper Border and pace bowler Merv Hughes , who was fined Pounds 185 , appealed vigorously for lbw decisions as tail-enders Ian Bishop and Courtney Walsh held out for a draw in Brisbane . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | I had to hold the door open for a woman with a pram , and then the whole population of Chetwynd poured out in a body , and I was still holding it . |
15 | Adam reached out for a fig-leaf — kept it on while he swung through the trees |
16 | Once again , thanks for the best laugh I 've had since my friend Daniel fell out of a transit van I was driving when I unexpectedly chucked a right . |
17 | The Yak banked again , came in fast , cannon shell punching into the Stork and Farber cried out as a bullet caught him in the shoulder . |
18 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
19 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |
20 | the first batch of ‘ new-old ’ Cimas sold out in a week . |
21 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
22 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
23 | Wood , who assumed the role of Cup standard-bearer when British No 1 Jo Durie pulled out with a knee injury , completed her contribution to the cause in the same emphatic fashion which had seen her demolish all four of her previous opponents this week . |
24 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
25 | Baker grew out of a mixture of punk and funk , but did n't kiss the ass of either in print . |
26 | Now president of Equator , O'Donnell argues that ‘ Multiflow came out with a product before its time … then , the likelihood of a 64-bit RISC chip was far away , on the horizon , now its changed . ’ |
27 | As he hesitated the door opened and Gilbert Forbes came out in a rush , his make-up smudged on one side of his face , his toupee not quite straight . |
28 | Mr Magaziner started out as a fan of the Canadian ‘ single-payer ’ model and a supporter of price controls . |
29 | Brilliant bio-chemist Jeff Thorp went out with a bang as the rockets exploded at 300ft , scattering his cremated remains in a shower of silver , green and red stars . |
30 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |