Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the petrol station and the little houses , in one of which George Carter lived , were left behind , the street petered out into a country lane . |
| 2 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 3 | Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer . |
| 4 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 5 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 6 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 7 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 8 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 9 | At their back was a giant oak , hollowed out like a cave , and before them an apron of lawn . |
| 10 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 11 | In lessons all day , he bounded out to a school meeting immediately afterwards . |
| 12 | Two of my brothers used to be car mechanics and would use ANYTHING washing up liquid , bleach , industrial strength cleaner to get those tell-tale oily fingernails clean before they ventured out on a date . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that there are only two miracles where it states that Jesus healed out of a sense of compassion or pity ( Mark 1:41 ; Luke 7:13 ) . |
| 14 | That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him . |
| 15 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 16 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 17 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |
| 18 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 19 | When they returned , the Burtons , who had been sharing the Simmons — Granger household , moved out to a minute bungalow which they rented from the James Masons . |
| 20 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 21 | The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous . |
| 22 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 23 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 24 | A few too many drinks , and Lee Marvin was often ready to come out fighting , as director Sam Peckinpah found out during a party to celebrate the finish of filming on a TV special , The Losers . |
| 25 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 26 | He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system . |
| 27 | White , 46 , who helped out at a holiday for the disabled near Farnham , Surrey , fondled the girls — dressed as a bunny and a baby — following the end-of-camp party . |
| 28 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 29 | Raising his voice a little , so that it cracked out like a whiplash , he said tersely , ‘ Off wi' thoo . ’ |
| 30 | Hauling himself higher up the brass serpent , Yeremi squinted over the helmets of Fists as three Land Raiders roared out across a ramp from the adjacent larger hold , on to a fossilised sea of undulating ebon lava . |