Example sentences of "out [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 2 | Did Lorraine come out or stayed in there ? |
| 3 | What he pulled out and flung on the bed were garments of his own : a thick jacket and breeches and boots . |
| 4 | The car thieves jumped out and escaped on foot as the stolen vehicle ran into the house . |
| 5 | Long after the profiteroles had been sauced , tables were moved deftly aside for a short but gripping , and sometimes funny , obedience display by one man , one woman and both their dogs before the breeds came out and strutted for their admirers . |
| 6 | She went out and returned around midnight . |
| 7 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 8 | A major rationalisation exercise was carried out and resulted in the creation of a single Head Office at Nailsea which now undertakes all the accounting and administration for Wimpey Hobbs , Wimpey Asphalt and the Overseas Contracting activities . |
| 9 | Mew found the fire had gone out and blew to 76 for 145 . |
| 10 | Whatever the views of the predominantly middle-aged critics had been — and they were mostly favourable — audiences in their teens and early twenties would still have found the film out and responded to it . |
| 11 | In the visual system of birds , colours and contrasting outlines are some of the features picked out and responded to strongly . |
| 12 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |
| 13 | Remembering the cheque , she went upstairs to get it , she flattened it out and stared at the signature . |
| 14 | She bought potatoes and carrots and apples and bananas and oranges and every time she lifted her bag an orange fell out and rolled on the floor . |
| 15 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 16 | I was waiting for him to say he went out and rolled in the snow because that 's the proper end is n't it ? |
| 17 | More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters . |
| 18 | School dinner lady Linda Ellis , 32 , and nurse Marie Fisher , 38 , saved Tom Friday after he passed out and toppled into the pool at the Ty Mawr Holiday Camp , in Towyn , near Rhyl , North Wales . |
| 19 | No more people left out and laughed at for being different . |
| 20 | He rubbed it out and chalked in ‘ 73 Squadron ’ . |
| 21 | He put his hands out and fell to the floor , as if to do fingertip push-ups . |
| 22 | Fiver and Acorn followed him out and fell to nibbling at a patch of sainfoin . |
| 23 | Grace swung her handbag in recognition , and a ball of wool jerked out and fell to the gutter . |
| 24 | As he left the pitch he blacked out and fell through a glass door , cutting his hand . |
| 25 | A jet of flame shot out and fell upon the cross , which caught light immediately . |
| 26 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 27 | This old lady came out and said about the cough — she gave me a dose of cough medicine . |
| 28 | The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . |
| 29 | His fingers came out and hovered at the side of her head . |
| 30 | We set out to carry this out and passed through our old rendezvous on route . |