Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [art] [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 | But they petered out in the maze of corridors . |
| 5 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 6 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 7 | We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water . |
| 8 | However nerves and hangover were soon forgotten as we headed out into the middle of the river and the adrenaline started pumping . |
| 9 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Kevin peered out of the window at the grey tarmac and the rain , and wondered what the family would say when they saw him and his wife . |
| 12 | He peered out of the window at the moonlit landscape . |
| 13 | Pascoe watched her as she peered out at the lowlife in the streets . |
| 14 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 15 | She peered out through the windscreen into the eerie blackness of the winding lane . |
| 16 | She led her horse to the very edge of the woodland , and peered out through the scrub at the rise of land before her . |
| 17 | Harland and Wolff Welders crashed out of the competition at the hands of RUC , going down 5– at Newforge at the weekend . |
| 18 | Birmingham boss Terry Cooper blasted his players after they crashed out of the Cup with a 3-0 loss at Lucchese . |
| 19 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 20 | I wandered out of the shelter towards the bin . |
| 21 | It was their duty to drive back with their hounds all deer which wandered out of the forest into their purlieus , and to present all offences against the venison , whether committed in the forest or in the purlieus , at the next attachment court or swanimote . |
| 22 | Like a chameleon , it moved out of the aisle between machines , then stopped , and became utterly motionless . |
| 23 | The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me . |
| 24 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 25 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 26 | As a teenager I moved out of the nursery into the attic . |
| 27 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 28 | Some two hours after landing they moved out of the perimeter in parties of 20 or so , with Michael Burn lopping in the van followed by Donald Roy with the strongly armed assault parties . |
| 29 | Each table excludes not only any clients who died or moved out of the area before the periods ended ( for whom there was no difference between action and control samples ) , but also all those who at referral went straight into ( or remained in ) institutional care . |
| 30 | When the atomic bomb developed at Los Alamos , New Mexico , was dropped on two Japanese cities in August 1945 , the Apocalypse of St John moved out of the realm of mythology and prophecy into scientific reality . |