Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | He wrapped his arms round himself like a boy hugging a secret but he was so excited it came spilling out of him . |
2 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
3 | ‘ It seemed to turn out in the end that the American negotiator did n't have any flexibility and remained on the crucial issues unmoved . ’ |
4 | It seemed to flow out of him easier than anybody else that I 've heard , except maybe Beethoven . ’ |
5 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
6 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
7 | The slick threatened conservation zones and five islands supporting seabirds and colonies of Australian sea lions , but a major ecological disaster was avoided when it began drifting out to sea . |
8 | ‘ Then gradually it began to get out of control . |
9 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
10 | Mrs Ardern vowed to keep open Speke 's closure-threatened Pope John Paul II High School even if it meant opting out of the control of the church . |
11 | Yep , we managed to get in alright , pretty decent seats as well , even though it meant missing out on a few pints and getting there at 1o'clock . |
12 | Nervous though we were , it did turn out to be reasonably straightforward — but this was after all the beginners ' course and the ingredients had been prepared ; even the chives had been chopped . |
13 | But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village . |
14 | It had burst out of her heart , out of the very depths of her being . |
15 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
16 | Certainly , compared to the Rothschild days , it had run out of steam . |
17 | The new image will be a big gamble for the star whose Wogan Show was axed last month because it had run out of steam . |
18 | It had run out of diesel fuel for the generators because of the aid boycott . |
19 | But they overlook one vital fact — it would have been the simplest thing in the world for the ICC to announce the ball was changed under Law 5 because it had gone out of shape — if that had been true . |
20 | I complained before it went out of warranty and again after it had gone out of warranty and it was sort of very dodgy and I had |
21 | Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 . |
22 | It had turned out to be exactly as Charles had forecast , ‘ a gigantic , costly and splendid waste of time ’ . |
23 | It had turned out to be a strange sort of holiday . |
24 | Granted that it had turned out to be only too easy to make experiments in which training an animal on some task results in large biochemical and cellular changes in its brain , I felt that it was necessary to establish guidelines to help judge whether any particular change indeed has these characteristics of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
25 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
26 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
27 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
28 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
29 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
30 | Presumably it had fallen out of his clothes . " |