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

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1 I agreed to go out to Passy .
2 I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record .
3 I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson
4 So I got turned out of there . ’
5 They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals .
6 I got thrown out of me previous room this morning , on account of owings . ’
7 ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy .
8 I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me .
9 I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back .
10 When I tried to get out of it , she threatened suicide .
11 Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him .
12 On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks .
13 I tried to help out by looking at the putts , but he still did n't really need me .
14 And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether .
15 Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all .
16 I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself .
17 I stopped going out with my friends .
18 I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly .
19 For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat .
20 I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it .
21 Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’
22 He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game .
23 I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away …
24 Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools
25 I 'd gone out on the boat
26 And er with Michael I 'd gone out in Richard 's and bought mys , ever such a full raincoat when it was in fashion .
27 Trouble was , I 'd stood out against Crumwallis earlier this week .
28 By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with .
29 He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster .
30 ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS .
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