Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol .
2 He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue .
3 A mediator from the Catholic church had threatened to pull out of the talks , blaming both sides for intransigence .
4 Hornby loco we had those things you used to pull out of the cabs and they could go
5 Always remember , before you lean to your side , to pull out of the hips .
6 This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable .
7 Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on , the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere .
8 These sticks would be twisted round until the bag was tightly pressed and the essential oil oozed out of the petals .
9 Gutsy Slatefield Magic ( 9.55 ) scorched out of the boxes four days ago and another fast exit will enable her to complete a quick double .
10 He had tried to sleep , but the horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious and frightened him .
11 They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets .
12 Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in …
13 Stephen nudged Christina , pointing to a couple walking out of the customs hall at Grantley Adams Airport .
14 However , printed opaques are still walking out of the shops this Christmas . ’
15 A man from the audience is walking out among the dancers .
16 Suddenly , two girls fall laughing out of the Ladies into the narrow corridor .
17 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 .
18 We passed little shops hollowed out of the walls , selling henna , mint , aromatic seeds .
19 Networking out through the families and friends of Libyans he knew , talking to people in their homes , in coffee shops , in the markets and on the streets , Coleman met no one prepared to acknowledge even the smallest justification for the American action .
20 Here the blaze had started , killing Dame Frances whilst the rest of the nuns , given some warning , had managed to jump out of the windows or find their way down the outside stairs .
21 I would suppose it was shortly after four o'clock that I left the guest house and ventured out into the streets of Salisbury .
22 As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish .
23 This convention , so standard in the comedies that it escapes notice ( especially in modern theatre-productions , where it is very rare to be able to hear any difference between prose and verse ) , stands out in the tragedies , where the clown 's reduction of the medium imposes an often uneasy mood of relaxation or verbal indulgence , outside the time of the tragic action , frustrating its rhythm .
24 , John ( fl. 1649 ) , radical pamphleteer , stands out among the polemicists of the civil war period as an advanced thinker on constitutional law and theory with a talent for vivid prose .
25 What the hon. Gentleman is spelling out about the proposals is an elaborate , but nonsensical , theory .
26 He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) .
27 Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club .
28 When they reach the base of the cliff they leap out of the waves , scrabbling for a foothold and not stopping until they are well out of reach of the sea .
29 Carol and Gillian peered out of the windows .
30 I hauled myself up and peered out of the bars .
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