Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 2 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 3 | Janine took a deep breath and all the fears and worries inside her came tumbling out like a great canker that had finally burst . |
| 4 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 5 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 6 | To many of us inside the game of golf , Froggy seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in this world of smooth agents , six-figure endorsement contracts and marketing strategies . |
| 7 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 8 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
| 9 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 10 | The incident happened when the American star threatened to pull out of a rain-drenched open-air concert in Taiwan . |
| 11 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 12 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 13 | Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff . |
| 14 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 15 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 16 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 17 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 20 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 21 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 22 | The waitress from The Crossed Keys , unsuspecting , had come out with a fresh supply of punch . |
| 23 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 24 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 25 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 26 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 27 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 28 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 29 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 30 | all open down the back and you had to walk out through a huge waiting room full of people . |