Example sentences of "came out [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews .
2 MH : Yes , we came out on a real high .
3 The words came out on a shaky laugh .
4 Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk .
5 Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard .
6 Mr Blakey came out of a distant glass-house , beyond lawns and flower-beds .
7 The words came out of a sobbing smother of frustration and rage .
8 Greg Chappell came out of a bad patch when he realised he was playing innings in his head before they happened .
9 As I waited , Ryan came out of a near-by block and called to me :
10 Jazz is a form of music that came out of a social evolution in black history , and so is rap .
11 She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction .
12 Socialist Sweden came out at a hefty $27.10 .
13 The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time .
14 He came out with a fantastic shot , but it screwed off to the right of the green , and went down oft the mound instead of falling in towards the flag .
15 On 19 September the Baghdad daily newspaper al-Jumhuriyah came out with a front-page reference to the enemy as al-Unsuriyin al-furs ( the racist Persians ) , a theme which came the more readily to the lips of radio and television announcers for the uncongenial rasp to which the phonetics of the expression lend themselves .
16 The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel came out with a similar theory .
17 Marty Feldman , whose idea it was , came out with a great deal of language that no one else seemed to understand .
18 None of the districts came out with a clear resolution of the underlying planning difficulties , and the clear cut local decision in favour of closures which the RHA had hoped for , was not forthcoming .
19 They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it .
20 It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . '
21 I mean you came out with a wonderful statement when you were advertising this programme .
22 He came out with a wonderful phrase which has stayed with me over the years .
23 A man came out with a big bouquet of Regale lilies , festooned with white ribbons .
24 He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics .
25 She rustled around and finally came out with a crumpled bill which she put in my hand .
26 It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood .
27 Hope had a reliable baritone and kept time well : the words came out with an Irish twang to them .
28 Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling .
29 I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing .
30 They came out into a wide waterway which ended in docks .
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