Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] out and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Many of my male colleagues would have asked their female secretaries to go out and choose one for them .
2 Eventually , and despite the onset of winter weather , we managed to get most of the sequences we wanted , including foxes scavenging on long , lonely stretches of shingle , male foxes pacing out and marking their territorial boundaries , foxes fighting , and cubs in search of their own territories .
3 The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later .
4 Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them to others .
5 Both oral presentation and writing , however , have an additional function in helping the researchers to sort out and understand their findings in order to be able to communicate them .
6 Its talons whipped out and embedded themselves into the boy 's skull , using the emptied eye sockets as a means of entry and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes against the dimness , saw that the talons were in fact hollow tubes , thin transparent bones .
7 What I 'm gon na do is get the toilets , I 'm gon na get the toilets , the gents toilets , all the urinals ripped out and getting it troughed all the way around
8 Stirring potential buyers to get out and see what is for sale is a key element of successful salesmanship .
9 I 'll get those fractions those multiplication tables printed out and get you a copy in the next few days okay .
10 I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part .
11 I always tell the younger athletes to go out and do it , to believe in themselves .
12 The bony fingers reached out and grasped her petticoats .
13 From a decade of cobwebs and dyed glass she felt old leaf-like hands reach out and brush her .
14 His hands shot out and clasped her shoulders .
15 Then he suddenly went up on his toes and both hands flashed out and clipped me on both cheeks .
16 A little later a car drove up and two women in veils got out and joined me .
17 You just have to have the wit , imagination and guts to go out and find it .
18 The colour drained from his face and he would certainly have fallen , had not two crimson rope-lights shot out and pinioned his arms to the wall , so that he was forced to stand , vertically , half hanging by his hands , half supported by his mutilated legs .
19 He picked up a torch and was about to board the Delos when a hand holding a pair of goggles reached out and stopped him .
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