Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed , and the veil blew out like a flag . |
| 2 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 3 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 4 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 5 | Past the reserve look out for a viewpoint over Loch Avich . |
| 6 | And then the present falls out with a hat . |
| 7 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 8 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 9 | A quarter of a mile further on the lane widened out into a small clearing in the trees . |
| 10 | Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer . |
| 11 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 12 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 13 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 14 | According to the official Tass news agency six servicemen , part of the contingent stationed in east Uzbekistan since the outbreak of violence between Uzbeks and Kirghiz in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] , were returning from leave to rejoin their unit when the fight broke out on a bus . |
| 15 | The punt sailed out across a stretch of the cistern which was as calm as a pond . |
| 16 | When a clerk of the course comes out with a statement like this it seriously weakens the case of those , like myself , who would like to see transport allowances reintroduced . |
| 17 | The action arose out of a Privy Council hearing of his appeal against his dismissal from the Singapore bar following his conviction for fraud , when the Privy Council had found that he had been the victim of " grievous injustice " and expressed " deep disquiet that by a series of misjudgments [ he had ] been fined , imprisoned and publicly disgraced for offences for which [ he was ] not guilty " [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 18 | The windows of the pump-house blew out with a roar of debris and crashing concrete blocks , one falling where they had first taken cover . |
| 19 | Looping the loop and executing mid-flight victory rolls might be sensational on the coin-op , but without that gyroscopic cabinet thingie the effects are nowhere as impressive , and the thinness of the gameplay stands out like a Spectrum owner at a computer fair . |
| 20 | The flame winked out with a suddenness that was almost as startling as its arrival . |
| 21 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 22 | It was the practice to walk out of a Sunday with the braided leather belt showing just below your waistcoat . |
| 23 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |
| 24 | The idea for the plan grew out of a meeting organised in Mexico earlier this year by WACC-member IPAL ( Latin American Institute ) in conjunction with the Mexican Film Institute and the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts . |
| 25 | The plan set out in a letter to the union is being seen as a sign that all thirty one pits earmarked for closure last year , will now shut . |
| 26 | His bedroom was lit by a bare electric lightbulb , there was an ebony crucifix above his single bed , and the window looked out upon a brick wall . |
| 27 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 28 | All she knew was when they began to leave the straggling apartment block on the edge of town , because she felt him slide into another gear and the engine opened out with a deep growl , and then they were climbing , climbing , following the sinuous trail deep into a cleft in the mountains . |
| 29 | You can do the work yourself , use a ‘ network installer ’ , or get the work carried out by a contractor . |
| 30 | Annette Chevallier 's recent show of paintings occupied one of the rooms in the gallery spilling out into a corner of the Victorian paintings , while opposite was a touring exhibition of European ceramics . |