Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 2 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 3 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 4 | ‘ I was frantic that they 'd found out about the flat , where she lived . |
| 5 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 6 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 7 | As they began to rush out of the shops , the bombs exploded . |
| 8 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
| 9 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 10 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 11 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 12 | But they insisted to go out of the front . ’ |
| 13 | They did n't get far , of course , but they managed to get out of the prison itself … ’ |
| 14 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 15 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 16 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 17 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 18 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 19 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
| 20 | Before they had ventured out into the snowstorm , their mother had issued instructions : ‘ Pin up your skirts before you go out into that plother . ’ |
| 21 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 22 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |
| 23 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 24 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 25 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 26 | Romford 's insurers paid the father 's claim and then sued his son , the negligent lorry driver , to recover what they had paid out under the contract of insurance . |
| 27 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 28 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |
| 29 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 30 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |