Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 2 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |
| 3 | ‘ So he went out in a hurry . |
| 4 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 5 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 6 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 7 | Numbly , she followed him to the ladder at the back of the yacht , then watched as he ignored it and dived powerfully into the indigo water , his body slicing cleanly with hardly a splash before he struck out with a strong , fast crawl towards the far distant shore . |
| 8 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 9 | Record of the Year and Song of the Year were awarded for Tears in Heaven , which Clapton wrote as a tribute to his young son , Conor , who died two years ago when he fell out of a window of the singer 's 53rd-floor Manhattan apartment . |
| 10 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 11 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 12 | Reg , who works for SSL , the platform 's services contractor , realised almost £1 a foot when he leapt out of a Cessna plane from 2500 feet above the ground at Navenby airfield , Lincolnshire . |
| 13 | The idea of dying did n't worry him , so long as he went out with a bang . |
| 14 | His face bearing the ruby-red signature of four sets of young Mambo princess lips , Antonio Banderas grins sheepishly as he stumbles out of a Beverly Hills hotel bedroom . |
| 15 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |