Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun .
2 That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him .
3 On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work .
4 The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous .
5 Obispal 's power sword sailed out in an arc and danced across the floor , severing several feet .
6 He lashed out with a foot and caught Liartes , who was trying to stand up , on the side of his head .
7 She tiptoed out with a blanket and tucked it around him .
8 The men operating the windlass for the portcullis cheered Burun as he rode past and , as soon as they gave tongue , more men came out of a gate-house and joined in .
9 The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions .
10 So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ?
11 Which was interesting at that time , since it came out of a tin and not out of an office .
12 This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving .
13 They came out of a restaurant and had a race with Juan O'Brien and two of his cousins .
14 He came out of a restaurant and stood waiting .
15 Er I was in the market and we came out with a machine that produced lager from top tap worker .
16 Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’
17 In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault .
18 He came out like a rocket and was up a tree before we had time to say goodbye . ’
19 The words came out in a rush and she felt her face flame .
20 There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang .
21 She was too tall and untidy , but her quality shone out like a light as she passed into the crowd , and the noise and the tension that are part of even the smallest race meeting .
22 A good mixture consists of 1 part cement , 2 parts sand and 4 parts , 2 cm ( ¾ in ) gravel measured out with a shovel or bucket .
23 All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell .
24 The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) .
25 The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun .
26 The flame winked out with a suddenness that was almost as startling as its arrival .
27 The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’
28 Suddenly , the Junkers belched a long tongue of red flame , straightened out for a moment and then spun down into the water .
29 United keeper Simon Tracey was last night ruled out for a fortnight as understudy Alan Kelly mounted a takeover bid .
30 Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground .
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