Example sentences of "men [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 John and Angela sat dazed and bewildered as men spilled out of the back of the caravan .
2 It is time for men to come out of the nursery .
3 When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy .
4 The London merchants of this period do not , however , represent a closely connected group of families as they had done in an earlier age : the civic upper class was constantly being renewed , either as families died out , or as successful men moved out from the city to the country .
5 There is , in a sense , an ideology of scepticism within clearly defined boundaries and as old men die out of the system and younger ones join it the tradition becomes cumulative and socially-constructed rather than just an individual matter .
6 There were mounted men spilling out of the defiles and patches of dead ground on both sides of the plain .
7 The men operating the windlass for the portcullis cheered Burun as he rode past and , as soon as they gave tongue , more men came out of a gate-house and joined in .
8 Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady .
9 Two men came out of the house .
10 Three men came out of the rear of the house .
11 Then two more men came out of the building .
12 The charges arose from an incident in Cypress Road , Witham , on January 19 last year when three men got out of a car and set about Mr Hawes .
13 A small figure was seated beside the trainer and it was only when the two men got out of the car and walked briskly towards them that Kelly saw that it was Cy McCray .
14 In the frosty quiet he heard the sound of an engine too suave to belong to a resident , and peered over the parapet to see the men getting out of the car below .
15 The fresh men piled out into the fight , driving the MacIans away from the ships for long enough to grab every Maclean they could find and heave him aboard .
16 Sometimes men get out of the control of their officers .
17 At night , no question of sleep for the men worn out by the day 's shelling ( it was not unknown for men in the line to go without sleep for eleven days ) .
18 Myeloski laughed , switched off the light , and the two men walked out of the room .
19 With a last , quizzical look at her slightly stunned expression , he waited for Mike to join him , then both men walked out of the suite , leaving her alone with Ace .
20 I was thinking particularly of my great-uncle George , the stories he had told , men pulled out of the sea half burned alive , the sudden explosions as another slow cargo vessel slid to the bottom , nobody stopping for survivors and the feeling of terror as the U-boats gradually picked the ships off until the one he was on was alone in the pattern .
21 Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help .
22 The three men stared out across the French countryside as the light turned first murky , then grey and finally black .
23 It is part of their folklore that the men go out to the pub or club at Sunday dinner time and there is n't a woman to be seen .
24 At the end of the Mass there is a touching prayer as men go out into the world linking the sacrament of the one bread which binds all men in God with the bread and ale of human meeting : In the bidding prayers where the priest directs the people to pray and tells them what to pray for , probably after the offering and the anthem , again attention is directed to all estates of society , living and dead , including religious , both monastic and secular .
25 You know , all men go out in the evenings — drinking and doing what they will .
26 He retreated to a side booth where he summoned a waiter , ordered a beer , and watched as the two men went out into the garden at the rear .
27 As the men went out of the door Laura stared glumly over at the young policewoman .
28 He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission .
29 ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’
30 ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’
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