Example sentences of "[verb] out in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 4 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 5 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 6 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 7 | Japanese never like to stand out in a crowd . |
| 8 | Tell them you 've come out in a rash , or something . |
| 9 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 10 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 11 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |
| 12 | ‘ The probate thing will be sorted out in a month or so , ’ said Helen in strangled tones . |
| 13 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 14 | With a little practice , the creeping grey speck of jelly which is an amoeba can be picked out in a drop of pond water . |
| 15 | Recession , in making people unemployed , weakens worker organisations and limits the utility of the strike weapon ( the only real weapon of labour ) because labour is reluctant to come out in a situation in which the hold on a job is precarious . |
| 16 | Her the narrow lanes are most pleasant for cycling , horseriding or even driving out in a pony trap for there is so little traffic and so much nature to be observed . |
| 17 | This is usually carried out in a London hospital or other UK hospital specialising in bone marrow transplants . |
| 18 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 19 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 20 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 21 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 24 | I later witnessed exactly the same procedure carried out in a Budapest café with such leisurely incompetence , that everything was completely waterlogged before they began . |
| 25 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 26 | This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance . |
| 27 | When the reaction is carried out in a dish , complex moving patterns of coloured bands spontaneously arise , including concentric rings and spirals . |
| 28 | Conversations with pupils about ‘ handicap ’ have already been carried out in a pilot study . |
| 29 | He is backed by Adrian Sinfield , professor of social policy at Edinburgh University , whose concern is that attacks on the welfare state are being carried out in a climate of increasing economic inequality and worsening poverty . |
| 30 | The process can be carried out in a micro-wave oven . |