Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picturesque ‘ yards ’ ( courtyards ) behind the shops all too often petered out into demolished nothingness , with scraps remaining of stone walls , closed workshops , industrial debris and boarded-up cabins . |
| 2 | But this scheme very quickly petered out with little result . |
| 3 | Wheat futures in Chicago dropped to 13-year lows in November when grain sales to the Soviet Union petered out after that country ran out of cash . |
| 4 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 5 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 6 | The proliferation of MKN45 as assessed by 7 5 [ Se ] selenomethionine uptake and cell counts was increased by histamine concentrations of 10 - 7 and 10 - 9 M. Histamine concentrations between 10 - 6 and 10 - 7 M maximally stimulated MKN45G proliferation which titrated out at lower histamine concentrations . |
| 7 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 8 | In those days no-one ventured out with dirty footwear no matter how poor they were . |
| 9 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 10 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 11 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 12 | My Enniskillen reverie came to an end as we moved out of that city at last , and continued southward beside the great lough . |
| 13 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 14 | He moved out with abrupt decisiveness . |
| 15 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 16 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 17 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |
| 18 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 19 | we find , we found out about that place and it was , it was a third cheaper you know |
| 20 | How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ? |
| 21 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He 's talking to Jorge and looking up towards your room , ’ Maggie said drily , wondering just what Felipe would use to kill her if he found out about this piece of sabotage . |
| 23 | Have ready a piece of butter muslin wrung out in warm water , doubled , and laid in a sieve standing over the bowl or deep wide jar in which the butter is to be stored . |
| 24 | He is vehemently against the huge action replay screens tried out on English Test grounds this summer . |
| 25 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 26 | Once or twice he began to say something , paused and then branched out to another subject which had no connection with the one before . |
| 27 | It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology . |
| 28 | A large black dog in the middle of the waste-ground dined out on discarded chips . |
| 29 | and it changed out of all recognition . |
| 30 | Some of the scenes were filmed in the unlikely Pacific setting of Bournemouth sands — where onlookers caught a glimpse of those red underpants as Kristian changed out of wet clothes after beach scenes . |