Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 2 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 3 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 4 | Suddenly the leafy green tunnel gives way to a clearing gouged out of the hooded wood . |
| 5 | Dog transport was also the norm among the settled coastal Koryaks , Chukchis and Eskimos of the arctic regions of the extreme north-east , whose main source of food was walrus , seals and whales , to hunt which they ventured out on the cold arctic waters in boats made of walrus hide . |
| 6 | The water , blue and green glass , was for a moment cold , then deliciously cool ; I swam out between the steep rocks to the open sea . |
| 7 | And that was why , when Paula 's face swam out of the murky clouds and peered incuriously at him , Miles Engado screamed . |
| 8 | Two hours later we weighed anchor , drew out into the dirty , oil-stained river and moved slowly downstream along London 's crowded waterfront , passing other ships , docks , warehouses , cranes , wagons and lorries , and all the come and go of men associated with the sea . |
| 9 | ‘ Hello … what in … ? ’ but the words died on his lips as he drew out into the full brilliance of the moon something that shone with the colour of the moon itself , a circlet of gold on which stood a row of triangular shapes from each of which flashed a pebble , some green , some blue , some red the colour of rubies . |
| 10 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 11 | Sacco peered out of the stricken doorway . |
| 12 | Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box . |
| 13 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 14 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 15 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 16 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 17 | She moved to the compartment door , peered out into the deserted corridor , then closed and locked it . |
| 18 | Suddenly , as he peered out through the moisture-smeared pane , something near the base of the wall seized his attention : letters spray-painted in white on its blackened surface , forming words he could not , in that instant of recognition , quite believe . |
| 19 | Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts . |
| 20 | Then , crouching down , I peered out through the pouring rain and saw such a sight as I will never forget . |
| 21 | Susie Smallwood peered out under the festoon blind . |
| 22 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
| 23 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp Stadium . |
| 24 | IVAN LENDL , the No 4 seed , crashed out of the European Community Championships in Antwerp yesterday , beaten 6–4 , 6–2 in the second round by unseeded Australian Mark Woodforde . |
| 25 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead in front of their stunned fans in the Nou Camp stadium . |
| 26 | HOLDERS Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup after squandering a two-goal lead at home . |
| 27 | The hounds crashed out of the far side of the covert and swung away from Artemis and her father uphill . |
| 28 | RUSSELL HOULT conceded the first goals of his professional career and was lucky not to be sent off as Leicester crashed out of the Anglo Italian Cup . |
| 29 | Short was co-driver for the British hope David Llewellin , but on Tuesday their British-prepared Toyota Celica crashed out of the five-day , 2,000-mile event . |
| 30 | In the United States the long dominant Democratic New Deal electoral coalition , which Franklin Roosevelt created out of the white south and the industrial working-class , has been in retreat . |