Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] a [adj] " 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 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 3 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 4 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 5 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 6 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 7 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 8 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 9 | The incident happened when the American star threatened to pull out of a rain-drenched open-air concert in Taiwan . |
| 10 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting . |
| 13 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 14 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 15 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 16 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 17 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 18 | Speaking of all things Mexican , our ragga tipping acquaintances SL2 did n't have the best of times when they headed out for a Big Rave in the land of tequila . |
| 19 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 20 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 21 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 22 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 23 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 24 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 25 | In a continent notorious for appalling prison conditions , where brutality and corruption are the norm , Nicaragua 's penal system stands out as a genuine effort to find a more humane yet affordable alternative . |
| 26 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 27 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 28 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 29 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 30 | Harrison Ngau lost his battle : he scored 2,019 votes against the Barisan candidate 's 3,252 ; only about 5,500 people voted out of a possible 10,000 in Teland Usan . |