Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] out in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 2 | Angalo stretched out in the shade . |
| 3 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 4 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 5 | Sky will spend £3million on the ITV ads — a great irony after ITV lost out in the race to buy Premier League football . |
| 6 | Prost won out in the end and then went off in persuit of Hill … |
| 7 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 8 | Selwyn Lloyd pointed out in the House of Commons , during a debate on the operations in the Oman , that Britain had to honour two types of obligation . |
| 9 | The original concept , as Miller set out in the preface , was ‘ to exhibit the figures of one or more species of all the known genera of plants ’ . |
| 10 | Bill went out in the garage yeah and missed him |
| 11 | In case such arguments failed , the king also reminded the commons frequently that the war had been undertaken with their consent and that this consent had from time to time been renewed , as Sir William Thorp pointed out in the parliament of 1348 . |
| 12 | More significantly , for the long term future of the industry , it has launched into a series of alliances , including a development partership with long-time rival Apple , with chip maker Motorola thrown in for good measure , and former IBM allies Intel and Microsoft left out in the cold . |
| 13 | I fucked you once — on the stairs , remember ? — when Alec blacked out in the kitchen that time . |
| 14 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 15 | ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 16 | Elton John and even Maxwell pulled out in the end . |