Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue .
2 ‘ Bill took it to mean that he might have to pull out of the yard or even out of racing altogether . ’
3 Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled .
4 She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif 's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands .
5 Goodman 's honeymoon with Haynes terminated with the launch of It and the American 's plan to pull out of the theatre and set up his Arts Lab in Covent Garden .
6 Hornby loco we had those things you used to pull out of the cabs and they could go
7 This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable .
8 and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise .
9 Blood oozed out of the meat and stained the carbon steel of the knife blade .
10 Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on , the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere .
11 If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success .
12 Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck .
13 Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on .
14 When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards .
15 In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now .
16 Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels .
17 He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head .
18 However , new time buying inspired another rally which petered out towards the close as Wall Street performed poorly with junk bonds under pressure .
19 Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available .
20 And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun .
21 Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent .
22 So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more
23 ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off .
24 Networking out through the families and friends of Libyans he knew , talking to people in their homes , in coffee shops , in the markets and on the streets , Coleman met no one prepared to acknowledge even the smallest justification for the American action .
25 Eventually we headed out of the city and got the feel of the lunar landscape by visiting the area of hot springs at Hveragerði which not only supplies Reykjavik with all the hot water for centrally heating houses , but heats the swimming-pools and greenhouses as well .
26 Mary White , the secretary of the Mount Leinster MAG warned , ‘ You may think this going to be a small hole gouged out of the mountain but it reaches for five miles on top of Tomduff .
27 It took five hours to reach Tagmout , our overnight spot , first crossing the dusty plain then wiggling up long valleys , over spurs and through gorges — the road simply gouged out of the rock and wickedly rough on the vehicle .
28 Dot wondered why it was braver to jump out of a plane than to lose two fingers in a factory .
29 It was wonderful to feel again , to let herself go with it , to water-ski blindfold , to jump out of a plane and take a chance on the ripcord .
30 On the other hand , if it remains alive it may try to jump out of the hole and you can catch it in your hands .
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