Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another came heaving out of the sea and flopped to where her calf lay , and , delightfully , the baby nuzzled in to suck .
2 When the British started to go out of Britain and go abroad for their holidays their eyes were opened .
3 And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be .
4 Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner .
5 This had grown out of his very successful Special Theory of Relativity which he had published in 1905 and which can account for two-thirds of the 43′ residual .
6 I explained that this had come out during my long interview with Inspector Drew last night .
7 Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’
8 So the British had come out of India with their egos more or less intact .
9 we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out .
10 Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy
11 To many of us inside the game of golf , Froggy seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in this world of smooth agents , six-figure endorsement contracts and marketing strategies .
12 So when the 9.15 came screaming out of the tunnel , the three children waved …
13 It cost about £14,000 to restock ; compensation was inadequate and hundreds had gone out of business , Mr Oatley said .
14 It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann .
15 Forty-eight of the firms listed in 1984 had dropped out by 1986 ; the real increase in new firms between 1984 and 1986 — fuelled by the Big Bang — was thus 160 .
16 Somehow it all seemed to get out of control . ’
17 Henry Robb had arrived in Leith in 1913 as yard manager for Ramage & Ferguson but in 1918 decided to branch out on his own as a ship repairer .
18 Yeah then we all had to wander out of here .
19 The other side of the picture was the very severe hardship that would be faced by the families , their witnesses and supporters if they all had to travel out of Orkney for the case .
20 All in all , the grandiose hopes of the 1760s had petered out in the Sussex of the 1820s .
21 However , no residents in affected houses had complained and many had spoken out in favour of the proposals .
22 These latter had fallen out of traditional summer grazing use during the present century and official encouragement ( mainly through SAFER — Societe d'Amenagement Foncie et d'Etablissement Rural ) has been given to establishing farmers ' associations for their re-use by cattle .
23 At least some good had come out of her association with Luke .
24 Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ?
25 When they first started coming out of the box they would just sit wherever they happened to land after stretching their wings .
26 One had slipped out of an alley in front of him ; he saw the glint of a knife .
27 Maybe something pretty wonderful had come out of her shattered dreams for one perfect , shining summer after all .
28 It was too late for that , and nothing discreditable had leapt out from Greg 's perusal .
29 And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side .
30 He once took a swim late at night with a drunken socialite , but that had turned out to be entirely innocent and there was testimony from Cary Grant to prove it .
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