Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried different approaches : he tried going out with John ; talking with him ; sitting with him ; even designing a game for him based on football which the student knew interested John . |
| 2 | If he mentioned moving out of her parents ' house , she dissolved into tears . |
| 3 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 4 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 5 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 6 | Hers said it was by mistake but I know it was n't and he came wandering out of the wood , all black and shaggy like the Beast in the fairy tale in the most peculiar clothes , very ancient , and dreadful wild hair like pictures of the Prophets . ’ |
| 7 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 8 | He came running out and took me by the sleeve in the darkness . |
| 9 | And he came running out behind us and at the back this massive puzzle and he slipped over in the mud sli slide straight forward and into the . |
| 10 | He came rushing out of an alleyway just ahead of me but he did n't see me . |
| 11 | He hated eating out alone . |
| 12 | I have no doubt that Nelson Mandela now knows the real voice of Britain is the one which he heard ringing out of Wembley , and not the one he hears calling from Number 10 for the letting up of sanctions . |
| 13 | He began reading out the typewritten sheet in front of him : |
| 14 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 15 | He began tapping out his identification in morse code . |
| 16 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 17 | He began talking out aloud , to himself . |
| 18 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 19 | Pain was something he enjoyed dishing out . |
| 20 | He enjoyed coming out with us last Saturday did n't he ? |
| 21 | He 'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive . |
| 22 | He started giving out new punishments . |
| 23 | A celibate period followed , he says , before he started making out with men . |
| 24 | After we split up he started going out with a woman who wanted to go out on the town every night — like him . ’ |
| 25 | He started going out with the girl who introduced him to drugs in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | When he started going out with other women , she refused him sex . |
| 27 | And when he started going out all the time , she started going out occasionally . |
| 28 | He started going out with Carolyn soon after Pam made her announcement . |
| 29 | He had the casting vote , as chairmen do , and he voted to say that he thought opting out would be good for Banbury School , but of course he was the chairman of the parents group that was trying to opt out , so that was not greeted very well amongst some of us , I think . |
| 30 | Of course , he knew speaking out would do no good , but he could n't help it sometimes . |