Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 2 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 3 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 4 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 5 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 8 | Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . |
| 9 | Speechless , Caroline found herself marched out of the warehouse to Roman 's Aston Martin . |
| 10 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 11 | Cameron and Menzies found themselves moving out of the door in a file of soldiers whose feet were already walking in step . |
| 12 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 13 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 14 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 15 | ‘ I told thee to get out in the yard . ’ |
| 16 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 17 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 18 | Spoiling his fine Lace Coat , which they told him came out of the Treasury " . |
| 19 | This gave them a little more freedom , and his habit of falling asleep in the afternoons allowed them to get out of the house sometimes . |
| 20 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 21 | I heard you come out of the Hall . |
| 22 | As soon as the mortaring finished we crawled out to the entrance to the trench , and manned the Bren gun . |
| 23 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 24 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 25 | After he finished he stormed out of the building and I have n't seen him since . ’ |
| 26 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 27 | She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it . |
| 28 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 29 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 30 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |