Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |
| 2 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 3 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 4 | After we split up he started going out with a woman who wanted to go out on the town every night — like him . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 6 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 7 | Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus . |
| 8 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 9 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 10 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 11 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 12 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 13 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 14 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 15 | He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him . |
| 16 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 17 | The day before his father 's return , he had driven out to a lake some ten miles from the town ; it was deserted and half frozen , and he had walked round it , finding that the fresh air cleared his head and that ideas came fast in the silence of the woods . |
| 18 | Like Michael he had started out as a ‘ breaker ’ — a heavy — until he had built up his own business . |
| 19 | Sammy Davis Jnr always knew his days were numbered , but he refused to go out without a fight . |