Example sentences of "i [vb past] out [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 2 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 3 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 4 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 5 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 6 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 7 | I came out with a show before the war , and stayed on . ’ |
| 8 | I came out as a result of sexual frustration and a desire to be honest with myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I came out for a walk , ’ she said , shrugging off his hands . |
| 10 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 11 | I rushed out to a payphone to break the good news to Karen . |
| 12 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 13 | I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning . |
| 14 | ‘ I started out with a mission and for me the mission is n't over … and that is to bring the heavyweight title to England . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I started out with a dream when I was 13 to be a musician … |
| 16 | I started out with a depth of thirty-six inches . |
| 17 | Even then I started out as a singer , until it struck me that I 'd absolutely no chance of making it — something to do with having an absolutely diabolical voice , I think . |
| 18 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 19 | I rolled out like a ball but sneaked back in on the back seat . |
| 20 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 21 | I looked out of a window to see what he was looking at , but there seemed to be nothing of great note , only the racegoing passengers streaming off their forward carriages en route to write postcards home from the station . |
| 22 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 23 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
| 24 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 25 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
| 26 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
| 27 | I went out of a daytime working , chequebooks and all that kind of thing , but it gets boring after a while . |
| 28 | I went out on a board George Downing had built for me . |
| 29 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 30 | I went out like a light . |