Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 2 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 3 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 4 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 5 | The case arose out of the Executive Agreement concluded between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran which led to the eventual release of the hostages detained in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 . |
| 6 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 7 | The driver got out of the car . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want the cheque made out for cash ? ’ |
| 9 | Each time you claim , you 'll receive a cheque made out to you , to spend as you wish , within days of making your claim . |
| 10 | Please enclose a cheque made out to Beverley Borough Council . |
| 11 | After some 10 days we received our order back from Bailey Distribution Ltd with a memo asking for a new cheque made out to them , since they could not transfer the original cheque due because it was crossed . |
| 12 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 13 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 14 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 15 | Came a day when the man revealed that he had kept an exact account of all the money laid out on him , and could now , in his unexpectedly good situation in life , Pay every penny back to his benefactor . |
| 16 | The administrator kept careful account of money laid out from the estate . |
| 17 | It would take the easy way and go for the baited foot laid out for it … |
| 18 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 19 | Like the malarial swamps out of which the Most Serene Republic rose , we have seen that human altruism , communal feeling and social responsibility arose out of the egoistic , sadistic and erotic drives with which nature had endowed man . |
| 20 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 21 | Every item is individually made — as our photographer found out to his cost when he moved the sack of potatoes sending us scrabbling to retrieve them ! |
| 22 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 23 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 24 | Her older brother and sister found out about the situation and teased her unmercifully . |
| 25 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 26 | The door opened a short way , and a small elderly lady with soft cotton-wool hair peered out at them . |
| 27 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 28 | Like an imprisoned animal , her vibrant coppery hair bounced out as if alive , tumbling in a glowing red river over her slender shoulders . |
| 29 | Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer . |
| 30 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |