Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pers pn] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 2 | Growth may be a matter of momentum : the money comes in and it is better to invest it than pay it out in taxes . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's too bad you ca n't put your ego in a box , tie a rock to it and throw it out into the lake , ’ she said sweetly . |
| 4 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 5 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 6 | My colleague saw it and cut it out for me . |
| 7 | If it 's flush and you 're flush mounting the new one , unscrew it and prise it out of the wall ( you may need to cut through the plaster first with an old knife to help free it ) . |
| 8 | His clothes were shabby , his linen clean ; the former housekeeper washed it and dried it out on the grass . |
| 9 | Reaching down beside him , he retrieved a map , unfolded it and spread it out on the ground . |
| 10 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 11 | Take it and get it out of my way , she says . |
| 12 | Instead of shaking it , however , he grabbed it and pulled her out into the street . |
| 13 | I considered simply passing it forward , but some idiot would probably open it and read it out to the whole class , or else it would get intercepted by Mrs Burton who was the last person that I wanted to read it . |
| 14 | He picked the hambone off the rock where he had put it and held it out to Michael . |