Example sentences of "[vb past] out in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they petered out in the maze of corridors . |
| 2 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ? |
| 6 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 7 | Yet the total number of farmsteads built out in the fields between the villages is very small . |
| 8 | just came up over night till we found out in the morning well you can see it ca n't you Oh you did you see it ? the swelling on your dad 's foot . |
| 9 | ‘ Her mother was a very wealthy woman , and her father was a kind of handyman who helped out in the convent , and did a bit of work up at Westlands . |
| 10 | Leicester 's British Lion No 8 Dean Richards again helped out in the second-row for their 40-24 win over Milan . |
| 11 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 12 | He wanted it tried out in the open and for his name to be cleared . |
| 13 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 14 | I fucked you once — on the stairs , remember ? — when Alec blacked out in the kitchen that time . |
| 15 | The result was a general strike early in September 1946 in which police and government workers camped out in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda where they were guarded against any persuasive attempts from authority . |
| 16 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 17 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 18 | The soft black leather bomber jacket , the steel-rimmed glasses , the light blue Ford Escort parked out in the street behind him . |
| 19 | It rained all day and they played out in the mud and the parents were n't very pleased with me . |
| 20 | After a promising start , the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it . |
| 21 | Remember he waltzed out in the ? |
| 22 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 23 | As part of the growing concept of community care , spelt out in the 1963 Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care plans , many authorities have recognized that the physically disabled , like the elderly , usually want to retain their independence and avoid entering homes as long as possible . |
| 24 | There was no question of allowing Denmark to continue to accept the terms of EEC membership under pre-Maastricht arrangements but to decline to participate in the new extensions of Community authority spelt out in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 25 | They ate out in the garden , and , although the meal was a cold one , and quickly prepared , it tasted delicious . |
| 26 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 27 | Eventually we came out in the comparative brightness of the open space behind the house . |
| 28 | Of A God and His Gifts ( which came out in the autumn of 1963 ) Elizabeth wrote : |
| 29 | Later it came out in the press , there were some shocking pictures , and one of the company 's officers , Lieutenant William Calley ( 25 ) , was put on trial for war crimes . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw Mick and Jerry two days before it came out in the papers and they seemed absolutely fine , ’ he says . |