Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Blood oozed out of the meat and stained the carbon steel of the knife blade .
2 Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on , the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere .
3 These sticks would be twisted round until the bag was tightly pressed and the essential oil oozed out of the petals .
4 In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil .
5 Gutsy Slatefield Magic ( 9.55 ) scorched out of the boxes four days ago and another fast exit will enable her to complete a quick double .
6 He then scorched out of the gate , almost crashing his already scratched BMW .
7 He had tried to sleep , but the horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious and frightened him .
8 After the petrol station and the little houses , in one of which George Carter lived , were left behind , the street petered out into a country lane .
9 Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring .
10 Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer .
11 However , new time buying inspired another rally which petered out towards the close as Wall Street performed poorly with junk bonds under pressure .
12 For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo .
13 Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar .
14 But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting .
15 To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty .
16 Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland .
17 Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment .
18 But they petered out in the maze of corridors .
19 The canal petered out in the middle of it .
20 Yeah , well th that all petered out in the end , did n't it ?
21 We passed little shops hollowed out of the walls , selling henna , mint , aromatic seeds .
22 At their back was a giant oak , hollowed out like a cave , and before them an apron of lawn .
23 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 .
24 Our car conked out on the way to school .
25 But , with only 48 seconds separating the top nine riders overall after more than 1,000 miles ' racing as they headed out through the Birkenhead tunnel , Lillywhite and his team-mates had to be on their guard in today 's 85-mile penultimate stage to Salford Quays .
26 We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water .
27 She had expected Fen to drive back into Little Kirkton , to one of the restaurants there , but instead he headed out into the country .
28 However nerves and hangover were soon forgotten as we headed out into the middle of the river and the adrenaline started pumping .
29 Death finished his soup quickly and headed out of the kitchen door .
30 Then she discovered he 'd gone off any idea of tucking into the delights of her home-made lasagne anyway as , without another word , he turned and headed out of the kitchen .
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