Example sentences of "and [vb past] out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century .
2 ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’
3 We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau .
4 Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields .
5 Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista .
6 They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder .
7 Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water .
8 Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park .
9 When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command .
10 She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow .
11 Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window .
12 With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window .
13 Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness .
14 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
15 Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day .
16 Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's .
17 And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too .
18 They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity .
19 ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . )
20 She turned on her heel and stalked out of the room .
21 The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day .
22 The thorny question of divorce was discussed and argued out in the frankest tones .
23 Sabine tried to brake , stalled instead , and tumbled out of the car .
24 Then she opened the door and passed out into the hall , closing it behind her with a quiet but determined movement , leaving Iskandara staring after her in silence .
25 They hurried off , Rathbone with an excited spring in his step , Bruce huffing and puffing to keep up with him , and passed out of the rain into a street wedged thick with fog .
26 Carbon dioxide is removed and passed out of the cell .
27 So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives .
28 We rose , bowed to Queen Margaret , mumbled our apologies and crept out of the hall .
29 I did not expect to survive but miraculously I escaped and got out of the country .
30 She grinned and got out of the car .
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