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Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy .
2	I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me .
3	On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks .
4	For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat .
5	He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game .
6	I 'd gone out on the boat
7	I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again .
8	No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain .
9	To harmonize my body language with Alison 's , I turned to look out of the window .
10	The man and I began edging out of the kitchen .
11	As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries .
12	Nonetheless , I started going out with the Thai development workers , to visit villages and meet the people I would be working with for the next two years .
13	A man I knew came out of the block next to mine .
14	I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick .
15	I was lucky , I managed to dive out of the way .
16	Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush .
17	Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing .
18	I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd .
19	but I think , I think if I did flunk out on the maths side
20	I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do .
21	Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum
22	I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good
23	‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday .
24	I had gone out into the garden , closing the scullery door as quietly as I could .
25	I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’
26	Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared .
27	I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
28	In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van .
29	I had to get out of the business .
30	‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’