Example sentences of "[vb past] come out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 2 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 3 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 4 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 5 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 6 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 7 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 8 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |