Example sentences of "[vb base] out [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time .
2 As they finally leave the city and head out for the open road , Billy the Kid says , ‘ We made it , did n't we ? ’
3 Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone .
4 If anything , watching bits and pieces of his perfectly chiselled anatomy appear out of the murky darkness , and then disappear again , was an experience that was faintly and uncomfortably erotic .
5 The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land .
6 On black nights in Cornwall the piskies fairly leap out of the twisted holly trees and granite stones and I rush inside , grateful for the light , the fire , the warmth of a human voice .
7 At his most repellent , thick tendrils and leaves coil out of the forced-open mouth , eyes , or nose , lush and relentless , engulfing the victim 's head .
8 It leaves me like a right fool out in the bloody open . ’
9 It hits his head and you do n't hear the noise it makes because you cry out at the same time , as though it 's you in the bed , you being attacked , you being killed .
10 ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God .
11 Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way .
12 You leave the gas bottle on the floor at the foot of the bed and walk quickly away along the shorter length of corridor and step through the emergency exit out into the loud darkness of the night .
13 However , competitive pressures can still be generated by another feature of the industry mentioned before — the relative ease of entry into and exit out of the big league .
14 Things start to look boring when you exit out of the WYSIWYG add-in mode — no surprises here for 1-2-3 users
15 A wandering tramp climbed into an unlocked ground floor window for a nights sleep out of the icy wind .
16 • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it .
17 Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’
18 Light from the desk-lamp fell on his hands spread out on the blue blotting-paper , thin hands with thin fingers , only half the size they would become .
19 The rest of the section were standing in the rain with all their clothes spread out on the wet grass because he had not wanted to admit that he was ill .
20 A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact .
21 Instantly entranced , Victoria beamed ; before their eyes , her miserable O spread out into a Happy Sambo melon-wedge grin .
22 Although the atomic beam pulses spread out during a particular measurement , owing to velocity dispersion , calculations show that the mean density quoted here is the important measure .
23 The remainder of the followers now spread out around the clear area — a makeshift poteau mitan — touching their candle flames to one of the pyres and then laying their candles on the ground at the edge of the clear ground .
24 But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line .
25 Thus such jets spread out in a conical shape .
26 Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church .
27 It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife .
28 When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape .
29 " The new Queen can go whistle up her kilter , " muttered Harry , and setting his leather tankard down on the earth floor beside the grate , stroke out of the front kitchen and into the foggy night .
30 Rather , it is conceded that they doubtless act out of a well-meaning desire to treat .
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