Example sentences of "[vb past] out in 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 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 5 | One hand came out in a kind of claw and swiped at Quigley . |
| 6 | It had a plain smooth bodice to the hips , then flared out in a lot of little points , like petals . |
| 7 | Suddenly the words rushed out in a jumble of grievance and anger . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The scheme requires schools to produce a self-evaluation report which must cover aspects of the school laid out in a set of guidelines . |
| 10 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 11 | Rick Fehr , who , like Kite , lost out in a play-off for this title a year ago , closed with a 67 to match the old tournament record of 331 . |
| 12 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 13 | Broke out in a sweat at the very sight of it . |
| 14 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 15 | In another fire , this time in Gloucester , streets were closed off when fire broke out in a storeroom of the old Co-op building . |
| 16 | MORE than 30 people spent Christmas huddled together in a youth centre after fire broke out in a block of flats early yesterday . |
| 17 | TENANTS were evacuated when fire broke out in a block of Stockton flats . |
| 18 | They went out in a blaze of glory . |
| 19 | Then the landing window fell out in a rain of sparks and blackened timber and from the road came the terrifying , metallic clamour of the fire-engine bell . |
| 20 | The observation windows blew out in a shower of glass . |
| 21 | The mainspring of his actions as archbishop he spelled out in a letter to the king in 1281 : all Christian rulers derived their authority from , and were subordinate to , ecclesiastical law , to which kings , by virtue of their great dignity , were bound in a degree exceeding that of any other layman . |
| 22 | And while he watched , Firelight gave a great heave and a whole lot more of the little horse slid out , its neck and mane and withers and then its whole backside complete with tail , spilt out in a heap in the straw , ungainly legs in a pale tangle . |
| 23 | All suitors he challenged to a race : the young man set out in a chariot with the girl , while the father sacrificed a ram on the altar of Zeus in the Altis . |
| 24 | Specialised machines and equipment , set out in a line for nation . |
| 25 | The plan set out in a letter to the union is being seen as a sign that all thirty one pits earmarked for closure last year , will now shut . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) When granting a licence , a licensing board may attach to the licence any condition set out in a byelaw by virtue of paragraph ( 1 ) of subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 27 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 28 | As we pointed out in a tailpiece to this chapter in the first edition , the CNAA announced in June 1979 a modification of validation procedures for public sector institutions offering its courses . |
| 29 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 30 | ‘ as if I would , ’ he replied , his hands held out in a gesture of mock innocence . |