Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the hijack was a plot hatched between the two presenters to fox listeners , some of whom phoned to find out what was going on . |
| 2 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 3 | He also criticizes other ministers and Parliament in general who failed to speak out against these developments . |
| 4 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 5 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 6 | You never had the chance to ask — ; the slaves , the chain gang , the artists who got burned out making entertainment for you and looking real pretty for you , taking Whitey 's junk , the white pigs ’ white junk . |
| 7 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 8 | It was probably a Barbarian female who tried to make out that a woman 's work is never done . |
| 9 | However there was a y'know significant minority who were not media sensitive , who seemed to send out messages pretty well at random erm they 'd use whatever medium they happened to think of at the t off the spur of the moment rather than actually relating the medium to the message if you like . |
| 10 | We had turned off the main passageway into a narrow corridor leading to the stairs of our room , when our way was suddenly blocked by two savage creatures who seemed to step out of the darkness . |
| 11 | They turned a corner and Corbett had to hide his trembling at the appearance of the small , squat , one-eyed man who seemed to rise out of the darkness before them . |
| 12 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 13 | On top of her contribution to household expenses she had unobtrusively helped her mother by buying necessities for her brothers , who seemed to grow out of clothes and shoes by the week . |
| 14 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 15 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 16 | The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms . |
| 17 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 18 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 19 | ‘ No wonder the men who 'd served out their time put their savings into market stalls and little businesses , tanneries , dye-works , gardens . |
| 20 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 21 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 22 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 23 | There was Gazza Martin , the man who 'd slashed out his verdict , ‘ The tone and attitude of your piece stinks ’ in response to my idealistic scribblings . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 25 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 26 | On June 26 1990 , the Labour front bench , led by Neil Kinnock , Jo Richardson and Harriet Harman , tabled an amendment to the embryo Bill , proposing a ‘ blacklist ’ of doctors and nurses who declined to carry out abortion on demand . |
| 27 | The guide would be particularly useful to people who lived some distance away and who needed to find out if a visit to the record office would be helpful . |
| 28 | I was the youngest of the three boys who decided to wade out to Black Rock . |
| 29 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 30 | Andromeda were a hard rockin' psychedelic trio who managed to put out one impressive LP on RCA before nose-diving into obscurity . |