Example sentences of "had come out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 2 | He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him . |
| 3 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 4 | The waitress from The Crossed Keys , unsuspecting , had come out with a fresh supply of punch . |
| 5 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 6 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 7 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 8 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 9 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |