Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now it sat upon a plinth of stone the height of two standing men which was at the concourse of the broad principal streets which radiated out from Kinsai like the spokes of a wheel .
2 I mean the the caring feeling oozed out of Ni Bevan .
3 Virtue oozed out of Stitch .
4 Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand
5 Usually his anger seeped out in irritation ; just occasionally his partial defence broke down and he emptied in an explosion of fury .
6 The criss-cross pattern of streets , pricked out by street lights , flowed inland until the town petered out into blackness .
7 In due course , Lloyd conceded the draw and gave the ball to his batsmen , and the match petered out with England at 156 for 2 .
8 The Rice/Lloyd Webber partnership petered out after Evita in 1976 , and in 1978 Lloyd Webber founded the Really Useful Company to manage his shows .
9 Fortunately , though , the eruption petered out in July 1973 before irrevocable damage had been done .
10 The activity was unusual enough to cause Captain Mecke , commanding the naval Flak Brigade 's anti-aircraft guns , to guess ‘ some devilry was afoot ’ when the air raid petered out before midnight .
11 She still felt full of inner disquiet as the car zigzagged out of town and started to wind its way up to her host 's home .
12 Later , two black bullet-proof Jaguar motor cars headed out of South London .
13 Steve asked once again as they headed out of Palma , taking the same route Ruth had returned to Palma by — the quickest route .
14 I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running .
15 With a burst of terrific speed it headed out to sea .
16 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 .
17 With an almost childlike whoop of delight she bounded out of bed , quickly stifling the sound as she caught sight of her alarm clock .
18 This done , I ventured out into Göteborg , still famished .
19 Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then .
20 The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ?
21 Even as her senses swam out of focus from the sweet , cruel pleasure he was inflicting , he insisted on taking her one heartless step further .
22 And a competitive working environment drew out from directors and writers the best they could achieve .
23 They will include Alan Phair , who lined out for King 's Scholars , Portadown and Malone , and Ray McClelland , a former Academy player .
24 We went up a narrow street where children peered out of doorways .
25 He pulled open the door and peered out into Charing Cross Road , which was virtually deserted , the slush packed high and filthy against the kerb .
26 The soot-black metal of the stoves was carved with grotesque faces from which a dark heat beat out at Quiss .
27 Hoomey 's arms threshed out in agony .
28 But the judge was prepared to accept that due to extreme financial problems Mrs Fitchew behaved out of character .
29 Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 .
30 Local interest in the 250 race was lost when Antrim rider Alan Patterson , a favourite to repeat his first round win , crashed out on lap 11 .
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