Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 2 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Martinho came out of a door in the ‘ administration ’ wing of the prison , walking very quickly . |
| 5 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We came out into a room in the shape of a star . |
| 8 | The footholds grew narrower as he climbed higher , but a deep groove in the rock face opened out into a chimney in which he could brace his boots against the sides . |
| 9 | A CONVICTED killer allowed out for a stroll in the grounds of a mental hospital just kept walking — and was still missing yesterday , 24 hours later . |
| 10 | On one occasion , they clambered out of a taxi in Oxford Street . |
| 11 | But the stores group , Kingfisher shone out like a beacon in the dull market . |
| 12 | Walked out of a hospital in Holland the other week . |
| 13 | Poor Harriet , laid out in a drawer in the morgue or being worked on even now by the undertaker to repair the more obvious signs of post-mortem investigation before friends and relatives viewed the body . |
| 14 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 15 | This work arose out of a project in which a sample survey program was written specifically for use by developing countries . |
| 16 | I added quickly , as the appalled expression of a visitor singled out by a pastor in an evangelical church for ‘ spontaneous prayer ’ flashed over his face . |
| 17 | A fire brigade spokesman said the fire broke out at a house in The Bank at 9.30am . |
| 18 | ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 . |
| 19 | This is a gentleman who started out as a co-pilot in the Five-Seventieth squadron . |
| 20 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 21 | Boucicault , for instance , author of The Colleen Bawn , The Shaughraun and many other classic Victorian melodramas , started out as a clerk in the Brewery at St. James 's Gate . |
| 22 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 23 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 24 | ‘ He went out to a paper in East Africa . |
| 25 | A MOTORIST who went out for a drive in his new car ended up at death 's door after a knife attack in the street . |
| 26 | They went out through a gate in the walled garden , and encountered Hector almost at once . |
| 27 | He went out through a door in the back . |
| 28 | ‘ Like I fell out of a tree in the Garden of Eden . ’ |
| 29 | They were just about to move away when a big estate car eased out of a space in front of them and Stuart 's Mum parked with a grateful wave to the driver . |
| 30 | A black bat struggled out of a crack in the bar in front of him , and his eyes bugged . |