Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 2 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 3 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 6 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 7 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 8 | White , 46 , who helped out at a holiday for the disabled near Farnham , Surrey , fondled the girls — dressed as a bunny and a baby — following the end-of-camp party . |
| 9 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 10 | Hauling himself higher up the brass serpent , Yeremi squinted over the helmets of Fists as three Land Raiders roared out across a ramp from the adjacent larger hold , on to a fossilised sea of undulating ebon lava . |
| 11 | Rich roared out of a conflagration of overlapping , overspilling , competing and confusing flailing emotions in which little was as it seemed . |
| 12 | The punt sailed out across a stretch of the cistern which was as calm as a pond . |
| 13 | Whatever else he does , Sandy Lyle will be remembered for the shot he played out of a bunker on the 18th in 1988 -150 yards to the pin . |
| 14 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 15 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 16 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 17 | An Indian wearing a turban came out of a door on the half landing and , with a slight bow , waited for her to pass . |
| 18 | Martinho came out of a door in the ‘ administration ’ wing of the prison , walking very quickly . |
| 19 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 20 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 21 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 22 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 23 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | The maid had cleared away , and now she came out with a jug of wine and two glasses . |
| 26 | Thomas and Znaniecki 's study was very carefully reviewed by Blumer in 1949 and he came out with a number of general criticisms of the research in which the authors used letters , a wide variety of documents and Wladek 's autobiography as data to illustrate their theoretical propositions . |
| 27 | I came out with a show before the war , and stayed on . ’ |
| 28 | At the top they came out into a kind of clearing . |
| 29 | We came out into a room in the shape of a star . |
| 30 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |