Example sentences of "it [vb past] out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully .
2 The sound of the engine starting up was a welcome intrusion , the smooth glide of the craft as it moved out into the main stream a gratifying feeling .
3 In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network .
4 It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood .
5 The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it .
6 It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped .
7 It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’
8 A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window .
9 It opened out onto a narrow flight of stone steps .
10 It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers .
11 Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation .
12 I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there .
13 Class conflict , when it broke out during the final quarter of the nineteenth century in the North and West , took the form of ‘ tenant right ’ , the demand by tenant farmers for greater security and the guarantee of their other interests against those of their landlords .
14 What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it .
15 It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two .
16 Then , as now , it looked out over the broad creek and the gunmetal-coloured mud with the eaten-looking wreck of an old fishing boat sticking out of it .
17 The end of the bridge was clearly visible as it grew out of the far bank , and needed only a couple of rafts to make it complete .
18 The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate .
19 It missed out on a small but significant slice of the market .
20 When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards .
21 He waited tactfully with Catherine and the young constable on the embankment , liking the sweep of the country as it spread out in the raw , cold day .
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