Example sentences of "running out [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were running out onto the deck , and screaming . |
| 2 | It sounded as if this woman was blaming Jennifer for falling ill , instead of her precious son for running out on the situation . |
| 3 | Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket . |
| 4 | A series of small explosions one morning brought Alec running out to the top of the steps . |
| 5 | ‘ Time is quickly running out for the army to show whether it is on the side of the people , ’ said the Bosnian Interior Minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic . |
| 6 | He and other activists say time is now running out for the union ban , which they say will end after the election , because both Labour and Liberal Democrats have pledged to re-introduce union rights . |
| 7 | As it falls toward the unseen companion , it develops a spiral motion ( rather like water running out of a bath ) , and it gets very hot , emitting X rays ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 8 | He was kind of staggering , with one hand held to his temple , and from time to time making a noise like water running out of a bath . |
| 9 | The barman was by now mellow and helpful and said we were rapidly running out of the ice that had come aboard in bags in Sudbury . |
| 10 | ‘ Ricotta , ’ he explained , opening the bag for them to inspect the fluffy white mound with the whey still running out of the cheese paper . |
| 11 | If anything was growing at an alarming rate , it was the network of railway lines running out of the centre of London to outlying suburbs . |
| 12 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 13 | but I 'm , I 'm rapidly running out of the allowance erm she appears to be satisfied |
| 14 | . With this little foreman threatening fists and everybody running out of the way of the brickwork . |
| 15 | Wizzo ! ’ yelled Zach , leaping up and running out of the kitchen , ‘ Calloo , calloo , calloo , callay . ’ |
| 16 | The bear goes aargh ! and the man 's running out of the pub really fast , he 's running like that . |
| 17 | O'Hara asked , and Stella accepted at once , almost running out of the restaurant , scarcely bothering to wave a farewell to the others who were now giddily swaying across the dance floor . |
| 18 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 19 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 20 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she said , almost running out of the lift to her room and shaking with relief when she closed and locked the door behind her . |
| 21 | It was all due to that person running out of the crowd . |
| 22 | Her mouth was a little open and there was a watery trickle running out of the side of her mouth . |
| 23 | Just then Angela , who had seen her crossing the field , came running out of the farmhouse . |
| 24 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 25 | I remember running out of the room , running to my parents and lots of hugs and emotion and it was great . |
| 26 | she kept running out of the room and being sick and everything so I thought |
| 27 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 28 | Behind him the man was running out into the roadway , already too far off for a useful shot . |
| 29 | My Lady Dedlock ( who is childless ) , looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper 's lodge , and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper . |
| 30 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |