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 .
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