Example sentences of "[vb past] out in [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although her pallor and her drawn features aged her , Wycliffe had the impression of a little girl caught out in some childish fault .
2 I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong .
3 Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point .
4 Waterfront had odious intent — a simplistic anti-union message , a director and scriptwriter who had informed to the McCarthy commission and used the movie to justify their actions — but Brando 's churning frustration , played out in several classic scenes , rose above it all .
5 Does the Secretary of State agree that the staff of the national health service are dedicated and caring and have achieved many of the aims spelt out in that glossy document ?
6 ALL eyes were on Princess Diana last night as she stepped out in this stunning wrap-around dress .
7 One thing all the armies had in common was a careful explanation of their presence , a specific mandate set out in such complex detail that officials of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry were sometimes still trying to decipher its true meaning when the army in question was retreating out of Lebanon .
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