Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But although this burst of new direction has logically exploded out of Paris , the world 's fashion capital , the energy and creativity emerging from countries with traditionally low fashion profiles is what is truly intriguing and inspiring .
2 THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests .
3 Army Television Channel 5 in Thailand reported on Jan. 9 that fighting had recently broken out between Lao government and rebel forces in Vientiane province .
4 ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of .
5 A committee at the Ministry of Labour had also worked out with industrialists methods of shifting the hours of work to avoid the winter peak times , and this load spreading helped a lot to contain industrial peak demand at these crucial times .
6 However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence .
7 While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without .
8 His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours .
9 Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world .
10 And you are taking it , rather any other , because our … usual carrier service has regrettably gone out of business .
11 Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car .
12 The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control .
13 You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind .
14 She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave .
15 Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail .
16 But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform .
17 But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you .
18 A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us .
19 Not a single other EC government had yesterday come out in support of the American President 's decision .
20 They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up .
21 Football clashes between the age-old rivals have ground to a halt partly because outpourings of nationalism have sometimes got out of hand .
22 With the experience of the Contagious Diseases Acts in mind , Ellice Hopkins tartly remarked there were ‘ one or two things which the medical profession has yet to grow out of under the influence of an enlightened public opinion ’ .
23 The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure .
24 Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way .
25 But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control .
26 What seemed to have happened was that Scotland 's economic cycle had gradually moved out of synchronisation with the national one .
27 Now that Bernard left industrial action to others , the heart had quite gone out of the staff 's work-to-rule and normal relations were resumed .
28 The flying Scotsman had earlier missed out in the Junior TT by just 7.2 seconds in a superb contest .
29 She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her .
30 Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt .
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