Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this scheme very quickly petered out with little result . |
| 2 | Wheat futures in Chicago dropped to 13-year lows in November when grain sales to the Soviet Union petered out after that country ran out of cash . |
| 3 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 4 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 5 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 6 | The aggregate supply curve traced out by these short-run deviations from the equilibrium real wage is and has a positive slope . |
| 7 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 8 | Although her pallor and her drawn features aged her , Wycliffe had the impression of a little girl caught out in some childish fault . |
| 9 | My Enniskillen reverie came to an end as we moved out of that city at last , and continued southward beside the great lough . |
| 10 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 11 | I found out about that in Buenos Aires . ’ |
| 12 | So then I went secretly to have an abortion , and my mother-in-law found out about that too . |
| 13 | we find , we found out about that place and it was , it was a third cheaper you know |
| 14 | Lisa found out about that erm Mark was going to . |
| 15 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And when you found out about this new plan of theirs , they kidnapped Liam to stop you telling . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't imagine what his father would say if he found out about this . |
| 18 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 19 | When his mother found out about this ( which was not until much later ) , it was a cause of great heartbreak to her . |
| 20 | As can be seen from Table 8 of Appendix I , our 1979 survey con firms what the earlier NOP/ OFT surveys found out about this : people do n't have a wide knowledge of credit types |
| 21 | We found out about this when an impromptu ‘ appel ’ was called at 7.00 pm . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's talking to Jorge and looking up towards your room , ’ Maggie said drily , wondering just what Felipe would use to kill her if he found out about this piece of sabotage . |
| 23 | According to Jose Herrero , president of the environmental group , Fundacion Cuero y Salado : " When the Honduran people found out about this , there was an outrage never seen before in this country , not even when the contras and US bases were here " . |
| 24 | So er when I found out about this I 've equipped them with a er |
| 25 | One of the things I found out about this one , is that , welder 's lung is still not recognized as an industrial disease er of all this time , and yet , if you have welder 's lung by er using stainless steel , it is , but it comes under asthma , so that 's something that we feel that should be being pushed by the G M B. |
| 26 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 27 | Once or twice he began to say something , paused and then branched out to another subject which had no connection with the one before . |
| 28 | For example , Primitive Germanic branched out into such different languages as Gothic , Old Saxon , Old High German , Old Norse and Old English . |
| 29 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 30 | and it changed out of all recognition . |