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 . |