Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picturesque ‘ yards ’ ( courtyards ) behind the shops all too often petered out into demolished nothingness , with scraps remaining of stone walls , closed workshops , industrial debris and boarded-up cabins . |
| 2 | In those days no-one ventured out with dirty footwear no matter how poor they were . |
| 3 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 4 | He moved out with abrupt decisiveness . |
| 5 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 6 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |
| 7 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 8 | How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ? |
| 9 | Have ready a piece of butter muslin wrung out in warm water , doubled , and laid in a sieve standing over the bowl or deep wide jar in which the butter is to be stored . |
| 10 | His deathbed will ( 10 October 1424 ) reflected him fairly : considerable wealth , portioned out in particular for the completion of ambitious rebuildings of Bubwith church ( £300 ) and Wells Cathedral ( £667 ) , roadworks in Somerset ( £667 ) , and prayers for his soul , especially by poor priests in Oxford and friars in London and his diocese ( £667 ) . |
| 11 | He is vehemently against the huge action replay screens tried out on English Test grounds this summer . |
| 12 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 13 | It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology . |
| 14 | A large black dog in the middle of the waste-ground dined out on discarded chips . |
| 15 | Some of the scenes were filmed in the unlikely Pacific setting of Bournemouth sands — where onlookers caught a glimpse of those red underpants as Kristian changed out of wet clothes after beach scenes . |
| 16 | He gives us a murderer whose ‘ words pattered out like smooth large grains ’ — clear and distinguishable , and yet somehow there is nothing to get a purchase on . |
| 17 | And the FBI said it had participated only to help fingerprint the victims ; yet there is an FBI report on the incident with over 200 pages blacked out for national security reasons . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you to sit down ! ’ he ground out through clenched teeth , and when she did n't immediately obey him he placed his hands on her shoulders , pushing her firmly down on to a sofa . |
| 19 | The sun had gone , blanked out by sultry vapour . |
| 20 | The veteran of European campaigns with Aberdeen and Manchester United revealed his concern at the rough stuff dished out to prolific marksman Chapman in the first leg a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | The headmaster threw back his head and gave out the kind of laugh dished out by medieval jailers to boastful prisoners . |
| 22 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 23 | Twenty thousand people camped out on common land for a music festival . |
| 24 | Her health suffered ; vagrant aches camped out in different parts of her body but she did n't dare go to a Spiderglass doctor . |
| 25 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 26 | Pate 's Grammar School in Cheltenham , which opted out of local authority control three years ago , faces making teachers redundant if it does n't find the money by April . |
| 27 | Frank Sinatra stars alongside Laurence Harvey in this wild , fearless look at political extremism played out on American soil after the Korean War . |
| 28 | As a biologist , I agree with Axelrod and Hamilton that many wild animals and plants are engaged in ceaseless games of Prisoner 's Dilemma , played out in evolutionary time . |
| 29 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 30 | On May 3rd , in an imaginative charade played out before invited cameramen , a group of settlers dressed as ‘ PLO Police ’ set up roadblocks outside Jerusalem and pretended to stop and harass Israeli drivers . |