Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] out [conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of rooting them out and replacing them , we can leave them undisturbed until they are intermingled with the new presuppositions of Christian truth which should be the sole foundation of the Christian 's mind . |
| 2 | Meehan lost no time in seeking him out and asking him if what he had heard was true . |
| 3 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
| 4 | But then again , as he said , there 's plenty of grass and as for turning them out or taking their does , if they 're all up to his size and weight they 've nothing to fear from a crowd like us . |
| 5 | Then you had a a squad of men pulling them out and cutting them . |
| 6 | Who was mucking him out and hosing him down ? |
| 7 | Half a century ago , youths in Wellington bombers flew out to deal death and have it dealt to them in return ; now the American F-111s roar overhead , and , from time to time , a plume of orange flame and a cloud of smoke appear on the horizon to remind us all that dishing it out and taking it are widely differing talents . |
| 8 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 9 | Instead , a store detective will look for suspicious actions and then try to put off the would-be thief by staring them out and making their presence felt . |
| 10 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 11 | It is almost as if he stood in his stable and worked it out while chewing his haynet — a bit like solutions sometimes come to us while we 're soaking in the bath . |
| 12 | She 's done enough for us , taking us out and giving us tea and things . ’ |
| 13 | Each priority will have to be broken down into manageable tasks and the methods for carrying them out and reviewing them identified . |
| 14 | Well what 's the difference between throwing this one out and throwing them out and burning them ? |
| 15 | This means fluffing them out and adapting them to whatever atmosphere she found herself in , and is a sure sign of contentment in a lot of birds . |
| 16 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 17 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 18 | This psychological edifice , to the creation and maintenance of which she now devoted her energy , she pictured as a kind of large machine erected inside her body , stretching it out and making her tall and rigid like a hard glistening monument . |