Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 2 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 3 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 4 | The words seemed dragged out of me , my voice subdued . |
| 5 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 6 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 7 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 8 | Heads began popping out of windows . |
| 9 | When the disappointed Cov fans started sneaking out before the end , the stand we were in seemed to have just as many Leeds as Cov fans in it . |
| 10 | Then the words started to hiss out of me , stale , rubberised air escaping from a subsiding Li-lo . |
| 11 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 12 | Gradually , almost stealthily , all the brothers had crept out of their stalls , and gathered in a circle about this altar and the group debating at its foot . |
| 13 | Then David looked up and , as though the desperate misery in his eyes had called out to her , Julia went and knelt on the hard , icy floor at his feet , reaching up with both hands . |
| 14 | By this time the crowd following the marchers had spilled out across the roadway , effectively breaking the ban on a march within the city walls . |
| 15 | Her blue eyes were overbright , and she immediately regretted that those words had burst out of her . |
| 16 | The words had tumbled out in anger . |
| 17 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 20 | Many people argued that , as the polytechnics had moved out of local government , two separate funding bodies made little sense and hindered the development of an integrated system of higher education . |
| 21 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 22 | Psychic phenomena seemed to cry out for , and lend themselves to , scientific investigation . |
| 23 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |
| 24 | Ernest Jacob 's parents did get out of Germany , just four weeks before the outbreak of war . |
| 25 | The top 10 packages youngsters queued to try out at the show were : |
| 26 | Tucked into the shadows ahead of me along the pavement the two blacks had melted out of sight . |
| 27 | The hormonal tensions had flowed out of Lexandro , earthed through his power sword into the bodies . |
| 28 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 29 | That was how she lost her optic implant , how her platelocks got knocked out of shape . |
| 30 | These bolts seemed to ooze out of her hands . |