Example sentences of "walk out " in BNC.

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1 Glasser talks of her as if , in walking out , she had gone on to walk the streets .
2 Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it .
3 Even contemplating walking out over such a small matter may seem ridiculous , but within the context of that small world , the dispute was a major one .
4 ‘ Fine by me , but wo n't Bryant smell a rat when he sees me walking out with all this ? ’
5 I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know .
6 The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting .
7 She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure .
8 Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes .
9 But tell me who those men were , walking out .
10 At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor .
11 A huge row in the Modena camp resulted in half the team — including drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti — walking out and forming ATS ( Automobili Turismo e Sport ) .
12 Jansher , who was already on probation after being fined £200 for walking out of the Kuala Lumpur World Open dinner in October , has clearly reached a point of no return with his conduct .
13 Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else , or teenagers leaving home .
14 In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now .
15 The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’
16 The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches !
17 The former Prime Minister briefly held her husband 's hand before walking out , blinking , into the flash of bulbs .
18 Imagine walking out one day and thinking about the light .
19 He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed .
20 To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question .
21 It started with 200 in the hall but they began walking out .
22 He gave her a pained look before putting on his hat and walking out .
23 Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot .
24 You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened .
25 I said ‘ That 's it — I 'm going ’ , and I found myself walking out
26 Stop being so rude to her father — walking out when he gives her advice .
27 Imagine my poor Aunt 's reaction when told by a shocked neighbour that her eldest daughter was walking out with a Chinaman .
28 We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight .
29 Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road .
30 As he reached the porch the door opened and the tall skinny frame of Sammy Pockets came walking out .
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