Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " 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 | But they petered out in the maze of corridors . |
| 4 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 5 | However nerves and hangover were soon forgotten as we headed out into the middle of the river and the adrenaline started pumping . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 10 | There came the faint scuffle of moving feet , and a dark shape moved out from the rear of the car . |
| 11 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 12 | It should cover fixed outbuildings , but , as many people found out during the hurricane of 1987 , it does not cover fences . |
| 13 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rich roared out of a conflagration of overlapping , overspilling , competing and confusing flailing emotions in which little was as it seemed . |
| 16 | Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid . |
| 17 | When it was over we filed out to the accompaniment of the organ . |
| 18 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 19 | Joseph noticed out of the corner of his eye that Khai Dinh had risen from his seat and was walking slowly in his ponderous Ming boots towards the door . |
| 20 | Greg noticed out of the corner of his eye Mr Kronweiser waddling out through the door , and thought he 'd finished work early for the day . |
| 21 | The punt sailed out across a stretch of the cistern which was as calm as a pond . |
| 22 | Forty minutes was enough , but after a shower and a breakfast of fruit and cups of tea I felt very sprightly and strolled out to the row of shops nearby . |
| 23 | Slipping ammunition into the Winchester , he strolled out into the centre of the road , and stood casually , facing north , the shortened rifle held loosely but firmly in his hands . |
| 24 | ‘ They say they 're dope-testing jockeys of the first three , ’ he muttered out of the side of his mouth . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a custom , ’ my master muttered out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 26 | They paddled out into the middle of a large convoy that was anchored there , attached the mines and returned to Kabrit for breakfast . |
| 27 | He squinted out of the corner of his eye to look at Irina . |
| 28 | Aenarion lashed out with the Sword of Khaine . |
| 29 | ‘ From what I can remember this lunatic just accelerated out from the side of the road . |
| 30 | It filled the room and spilled out towards the fringe of trees . |