Example sentences of "[verb] out as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 2 | ‘ When I 'm back in England — ’ she started sharply , but her voice petered out as he interrupted harshly . |
| 3 | At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context . |
| 4 | The carrot will attract any wireworm around , which can be lifted out as they munch on it ( Harry says he finds this particularly useful for melon beds ) . |
| 5 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 6 | I was too scared to talk to anyone about them , because I did n't think they 'd understand , and I never wanted you to find out as I though it would destroy you . |
| 7 | The bill had already been taken care of , she found out as she asked a porter to help with their bags . |
| 8 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 9 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 10 | This study was carried out as we desctibed previously . |
| 11 | There was a claim for forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and eighty six pence for the cost of alterations to the plaintiff 's home already carried out as I have indicated already , that was discharged by payment and by local authority grant of nine thousand eight hundred and forty seven pounds and an interim payment of thirty two thousand nine hundred and thirty nine pounds eighty six pence . |
| 12 | ‘ All the Synergy ideas we 've tried to work out as we went along — ‘ interactive ’ is n't the right word , but that element is important to us . |
| 13 | the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint . |
| 14 | The light pulses spread out as they travel : this limits the information the fibre can carry . |
| 15 | Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps . |
| 16 | Otherwise it may be difficult to appreciate how very natural it is that things should have turned out as they did . ) |
| 17 | If you want to know why things have turned out as they are , you 've got to go back to the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | Afterwards liberal deputies expressed their relief that things had turned out as they had , while hardliners were correspondingly downcast . |
| 19 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 20 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 21 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 22 | Water belched out as he drenched each tree , pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks . |
| 23 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 24 | This meeting was not turning out as she had planned . |
| 25 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 26 | As it was , I believe my judgement proved quite sound on the question of timing ; the fact that things turned out as they did is entirely attributable to an error of judgement in another direction altogether . |
| 27 | But things turned out as they were bound to do and not as I expected ; there was a typically whole gastrula on my dish the next morning , differing only by its small size from a normal one ; and this small but whole gastrula developed into a whole and typical larva … |
| 28 | we had the ch young children then so that erm all in all I am not sorry that things turned out as they did because erm as luck would have it , you know , |
| 29 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 30 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |