Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But for his trust in Donleavy , he would have dropped out at this point , military or no military .
2 Only somebody as naive and unworldly as Ianthe could have come out with such a disconcertingly honest statement , thought Penelope , who had of course wondered even more .
3 Yeah er they , they would n't have come out with some of the things about er I ca n't remember what was said that erm you know er would n't mind meeting you in the bath or
4 And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that .
5 What I , what I 'd like to do is , we can say that we 're we can make er a profit or a loss and we can give the figure , so this might have come out at seven thousand two hundred whatever .
6 An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood .
7 He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet .
8 I would n't have come out like this though would I ?
9 Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her .
10 But events need not have turned out like that .
11 I 'm sorry , I must have missed out on that .
12 If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe .
13 ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents .
14 ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’
15 My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole .
16 it probably would have sold out in nineteen eighty eight
17 I 'd never have got out of that without it .
18 ‘ There was no way I should have got out of that with just a scratch and a few bruises .
19 Without the wee man we would n't have got out of Div II ( IMO ) , which in turn means we would n't have attracted the likes of Macca and Cuntona , etc .
20 ‘ I should never have got out like that . ’
21 It was only my threat that stopped him because if his hand had touched me I would have walked out of this house that very minute and I would n't have had to go far .
22 She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death .
23 I spoke again to Nan-Nan , and she said she was sorry I should have found out like that .
24 Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ?
25 Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband .
26 Must have climbed out of that top window . ’
27 It has been suggested , from an evolutionary point of view , that language may have arisen out of primitive man 's use of manual gestures to communicate with his fellows ( Hewes , 1973 ) .
28 Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . )
29 But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said .
30 One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement .
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