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

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1 Fidelma stumped out of the room , deciding she had pressed her luck far enough and Timothy put his cup down , oddly disturbed .
2 Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char .
3 Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own .
4 She was lean , dark-skinned , and ancient and wizened as the baccala , the salt cod pegged out in the harbour to dry .
5 The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago .
6 And this was also the drug that caused British weightlifters Andrew Saxton and Andrew Davies to be booted out of the Barcelona Olympics .
7 And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year .
8 The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol .
9 He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue .
10 In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour .
11 The C&G was preceded out of the market by stockbrokers Kleinwort Grieveson and Hoare Govett .
12 Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent .
13 The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being .
14 As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community .
15 The Frenchman scrambled out of the river and stopped in front of her .
16 The children played a game , jumping into the deep green pools in the torrent from the big rocks under the star apple tree ; the cold of the water was so intense that Martha felt her body flush to its core with a spasm of heat ; even after she had scrambled out of the water her flesh still tingled from the shock .
17 Somebody called , ‘ Tea 's ready , ’ and the bathers scrambled out of the water and began drying themselves .
18 Three youths scrambled out of the car and ran off , leaving her dying in the road .
19 When all the limestone is dissolved out of the soil , more acid-loving species such as heather can become established .
20 The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home .
21 Then in 1650 Vane was voted out of the position and Hutchinson succeeded him , holding it from the beginning of 1651 until the Restoration .
22 He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) .
23 Most trout fishing tackle accessories are available from the well-appointed lodge which is stilted out over the lake beside the car park and rearing ponds .
24 Capt. Garner was invalidated out of the Army and resumed his £200 per annum post as Club Secretary ( plus 10s. 0d. a month expenses ) .
25 In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure .
26 This means that the required colours can be squeezed out into the palette before painting .
27 The whine of psalms as squeezed out of the village choirboys .
28 We got squeezed out of the middle . ’
29 Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system .
30 Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make .
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