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

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1 When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops .
2 A bigger set broke on the outside and we dived under it , then paddled out to get beyond the break .
3 But whether they came out knowing of the Welsh camp , and with some plan of attack , which the Lord Owen by his own stratagem forestalled , or whether they were on other business and would have passed by but for this lure , I tell you honestly , I do not know .
4 They changed in the changing rooms so thoughtfully provided and came out shivering in the cool evening .
5 But it was Portsmouth who came out firing in the second half .
6 Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie !
7 Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain .
8 The world No 51 came out fighting in the evening .
9 It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months .
10 They won 61% of the vote for Congress in March , but only 27% in December ( when far fewer people turned out to vote for the assembly ) .
11 Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate .
12 Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple .
13 Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple .
14 ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes .
15 Yet this paper led to our century 's great revolution in astronomy , for here an American engineer , Karl Jansky , announced his detection of ‘ static ’ , which turned out to come from the sky .
16 ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk .
17 Most significantly , over two-thirds of those who turned out voted for the early election of a new parliament ( not now due until 1995 ) .
18 A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky .
19 She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic .
20 As the path flattened out to lead across the close turf to the house Leonora 's feet slowed .
21 She started out walking along the main drag in the Miraflores commercial district , Avenue Larco , with a small case strapped to her neck , hawking cigarettes and chocolates .
22 We went out to wait for the others .
23 ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified .
24 Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end .
25 Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night .
26 He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house .
27 On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest .
28 The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians .
29 She went out shopping in the car with me
30 The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks .
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