Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] out [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 2 | His misfortune turns out to be a bonus for Portsmouth 's Alan been called up to augment the 17-strong travelling party . |
| 3 | Rudolf Lenzner and his crew baling out to be taken prisoner when the bomber crashed at Bur Marrad . |
| 4 | When his bastard turned out to be studious , the boy was accepted into the English bachelor 's house for a short time before he was shipped off to prep school and public school in his father 's country . |
| 5 | His style turned out to be somewhat autocratic and abrasive , and he was regarded with suspicion and some dislike by the older departmental managers . |
| 6 | While advocating the Work Society , Handy is enough of a realist to suggest that the most likely outcome , if his assumption turns out to be correct , is some kind of muddled compromise between all four possibilities , with considerable unemployment , some measure of a divide between the haves in work and the ‘ leisured ’ have-lesses without jobs , some attempt at the maintenance of full employment as a policy goal , and an increase in the amount of ‘ work ’ done on a ‘ voluntary ’ basis . |
| 7 | This second collaboration with Kirk Douglas and his ego turned out to be an on-set nightmare . |
| 8 | He surrendered at New York 's John F Kennedy airport where his gun turned out to be a starter 's pistol that fired blanks . |