Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it .
2 But I came out with an O level !
3 But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I ca n't get back in .
4 It was the last lesson of the day and I could n't help it , but I come out with a big burp in the middle of the lesson and she goes , ‘ Fay , are you feeling all right ? ’ and I says , ‘ Yes Miss , of course I am ’ , and then she goes to me when I did it again , ‘ FAY ! ’ and I goes , ‘ It 's all right ’ , I goes , ‘ Pardon me , Miss .
5 But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him .
6 ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added .
7 Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light .
8 I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy .
9 He tried to slap Jeane Russell with his left hand , but she backed out of the way and just laughed at him .
10 Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country .
11 It 's been a bit sort of muggy this afternoon but we went out in the garden and we sort of just pottled around you know ?
12 But they set out for the Town Hall none the less .
13 But they petered out in the maze of corridors .
14 But they emerged out of an analytical fervour : the practice of stylistic analysis pioneered in Cambridge before the war by I. A. Richards and his pupil William Empson .
15 It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow .
16 But he dropped out of the limelight after moving to Watford from Nottingham Forest .
17 I mean I 'm not saying he 's alcoholic but he goes out with the lads and he you know he 'll he 'll sort of thud up the stairs .
18 His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator .
19 Hawkins protested , but he went out of the room .
20 Initially , Richard Burton was to direct , but he pulled out of the project and Taylor persuaded John Huston to do it .
21 He was scheduled to compete in his 100th , and last , Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but he pulled out of the race in respect for his team-mate Francois Cevert who was killed in practice .
22 He was hit in the legs , but he backed out of the line of fire .
23 But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team .
24 But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time .
25 This is erm a warm current , small current , but nearby there is a big excursion of warm water wells up , and we 're not very sure why , but it extends out into the Pacific .
26 She laughed shortly but it came out as a half-sob .
27 " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper .
28 For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money .
29 I try a smile , but it splutters out like a candle in a draught .
30 But it seems out of the question for everybody to climb up there tonight .
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