Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pooled drop out rates from the 58 trials which reported drop out by treatment group . |
| 2 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 3 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 4 | It was a groan of hunger , as she writhed in a sudden welter of dumb shyness as his lips and fingers sought intimate places which seemed to scream out to be covered up and left in decent privacy … |
| 5 | The narrow straps seemed barely able to hold her full bosom , which threatened to spill out of the boned bodice with every movement she made . |
| 6 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
| 7 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 8 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 9 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 10 | Addressing the court before sentencing , and speaking in that confiding style whose quality of extreme directness made ordinary statements seem extraordinary , Gandhi took upon himself complete responsibility for ‘ the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura ’ and other disturbances which had broken out in recent weeks . |
| 11 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 12 | It was a grey morning , she thought with a shiver , the sky heavily overcast with cloud which had appeared out of nowhere during one night . |
| 13 | All the love and devotion which had poured out of those once-bright eyes reassured Marjorie that , somehow , Lizzie actually understood . |
| 14 | In fact it was a kettle which had gone out of production eight years ago . |
| 15 | Defence counsel said the assault was ‘ a crime of passion ’ , which had arisen out of McAteer 's ongoing marital difficulties and was ‘ not assisted in any way by the philandering of the injured party ’ . |
| 16 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 17 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 18 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 19 | One of them was an elderly man with white hair which had turned out to be a wig , and the CID man had remembered Matthew 's remark about the men who had burgled Moorlake . |
| 20 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 21 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 22 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 23 | This not merely scattered them but wreaked havoc on the transports which had got out of harbour ; 12 were sunk of which seven went down with all on board . |
| 24 | A second police spokesman said the drama was simply a domestic incident which had got out of control . |
| 25 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 26 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 27 | Russia on Aug. 6 recognized the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia as independent , prompting protests from the Greek government which had held out against wider European recognition . |
| 28 | The lowlands of Northern Ireland were covered by slow-moving ice sheets which had spread out across them from faster-moving glaciers in the mountains . |
| 29 | Müller stopped thinking about the foot , the ankle , the long leg and what lay hidden out of sight under her skirt . |
| 30 | Aggie had explained to Ben what had turned out to be the reason for their invitation to tea ; and now she broke into his silence by saying , ‘ Well ! |