Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the pioneers of a new level of development were given the chance to flourish , they radiated out into a whole range of orders and families to take advantage of all the various possible means of gaining a livelihood . |
| 2 | These sticks would be twisted round until the bag was tightly pressed and the essential oil oozed out of the petals . |
| 3 | Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on , the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Blood oozed out of the meat and stained the carbon steel of the knife blade . |
| 6 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 7 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 8 | Gutsy Slatefield Magic ( 9.55 ) scorched out of the boxes four days ago and another fast exit will enable her to complete a quick double . |
| 9 | He then scorched out of the gate , almost crashing his already scratched BMW . |
| 10 | Matusow was one of those lucky , and curious , souls who surfaced out of a curious past — like Michael X/Malik/de Freitas — in those fragmented times . |
| 11 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 12 | He had tried to sleep , but the horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious and frightened him . |
| 13 | After the petrol station and the little houses , in one of which George Carter lived , were left behind , the street petered out into a country lane . |
| 14 | Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer . |
| 15 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 16 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 17 | However , new time buying inspired another rally which petered out towards the close as Wall Street performed poorly with junk bonds under pressure . |
| 18 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 19 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 20 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 21 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 22 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 23 | But they petered out in the maze of corridors . |
| 24 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 25 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 26 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |
| 28 | We passed little shops hollowed out of the walls , selling henna , mint , aromatic seeds . |
| 29 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 30 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |