Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 2 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 3 | As they prepared to fly out to Greece on honeymoon , Kirsty , 20 , said : ‘ We reckon there will be a lot of empty seats on the plane when people hear about this . |
| 4 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 5 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 6 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 7 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |
| 8 | ‘ I was frantic that they 'd found out about the flat , where she lived . |
| 9 | Reality had become nightmare for them and they 'd opted out into a world where meals came , drugs were given , and all the doors were locked except for the bathroom . |
| 10 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 11 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 12 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 13 | As they began to rush out of the shops , the bombs exploded . |
| 14 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
| 15 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 16 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 17 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 18 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 19 | Still , they decided to hang out for a couple of days and party with the likes of SHABBA RANKS and KRS-1 . |
| 20 | But they insisted to go out of the front . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Luckily , they managed to get out without a scratch , ’ said a spokesman for the UN Protection Force , Unprofor . |
| 22 | They did n't get far , of course , but they managed to get out of the prison itself … ’ |
| 23 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 24 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 25 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 26 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 27 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 28 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 29 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 30 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |