Example sentences of "[vb past] out [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service .
2 A frightening and under-hand piece of work that must be addressed , since a whole new generation of Pop kids are now getting into ‘ the bobby socks and engine-stripping { Weltsschmertz } of Grease — a musical that came out before The Manic Street Preachers were born .
3 One evening the stars came out and the whole sky shone as clear as polished jet .
4 Two policemen climbed out as the second car arrived , and when the four officers had gathered , they entered the hotel .
5 It turned out that the weekly sales meeting was on Monday mornings .
6 I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family .
7 To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page .
8 When rumours leaked out that the Welsh Office , rather than grasping this opportunity , were seeking a ‘ derogation ’ to allow it to maintain the present battery of schemes , CPRW asked David Hunt to ‘ introduce a single , comprehensive agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , integrating existing area-based schemes such as ESAs , Tir Cymen , National Park and SSSI management agreements , as well as the extensification and organic farming conversion schemes currently under consideration .
9 By the time word got out that the whole thing had been a spoof , there was a sizeable demand for the book and , rather than leave it at that , Jean Shepard was persuaded to write the book proper .
10 This time both Arabs got out and the back doors were unlocked .
11 Juliet had looked on the street map , and worked out that the nearest bus stop in Tewkesbury would be the Crescent .
12 In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 .
13 " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top .
14 For a brief moment , the terrible Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher made the lake boil and smoke like a volcano , then the fire went out and the awesome beast disappeared under the waves .
15 But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness .
16 Figure 12.2 shows in chronological order the various recent studies of investor protection carried out and the subsequent system of regulation as embodied in the Financial Services Act , 1986 .
17 He built the famous shark sculpture sticking out of Bill Heine 's house at Headington in Oxford , and also the legs which once adourned the front of Mr Heine 's Oxford cinema , Not the Moulin Rouge , but the lease ran out and the famous legs had to go .
18 The memorandum may also address any conflict of interest issues and set out where the perceived responsibilities ( and , therefore , risks ) lie .
19 In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue .
20 The report also pointed out that the average life expectancy in the developing world had risen from 46 to 62 in the period 1962-87 , while infant mortality had dropped by 50 per cent .
21 An article in Our Flag in November 1912 pointed out that the average turnover of votes in by-elections had been about 1,300 votes per contest and that only 250 votes per contest was needed for an overall Unionist majority .
22 Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ .
23 Gorbachev pointed out that the contemporary world was ‘ complicated , diverse , dynamic , permeated with contending tendencies , and full of contradictions ’ .
24 She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that .
25 The profits compare with £25.4 million for 1991 , but analysts pointed out that the 1991 figure included a £4.9 million exceptional transfer resulting from a change in the bonus scales on the company 's industrial branch business .
26 Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " .
27 Gutteridge pointed out that the Combined Studies Board was not opposed to common teaching for the two degrees , but underlined the difficulties in practice .
28 Lord Diplock also pointed out that the only case brought to their Lordships ' attention in which an appellate court had actually excluded evidence on the ground that it had been unfairly obtained by a trick was Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 .
29 He rightly pointed out that the only duty of the Glamorgan selectors is to make certain the best captain is appointed in succession to Butcher .
30 Pakistan denied that any missile sites were under construction on her soil and pointed out that the Soviet Union had herself been supplying arms and building airfields and other military installations in countries in the neighbourhood of Pakistan .
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