Example sentences of "out of his [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prentice got out of his Escort and locked it , then pointed to the gates of the school yard . |
| 2 | We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it . |
| 3 | He leapt out of his dug-out and danced right in front of Dalglish . |
| 4 | People moved out of his way and did n't seem to mind doing so . |
| 5 | Standing in for late cry-off Neil McNab , Mungy , now 34 , played out of his skin and earned high praise from his boss . |
| 6 | Once Gazzer nearly collared him but the dog twisted out of his grip and ran along the bank with Gazzer stumbling after him . |
| 7 | Endill could not get the strange figure from the library out of his head and had soon forgotten all about his plan to escape . |
| 8 | Nigel pulled the offending tracksuit out of his case and demonstrated , pinging the elastic till it finally broke . |
| 9 | The squire 's white velvet purse had weighed him down , and though he had slipped it out of his jerkin and felt it sink past his feet , coins still seemed to be clinging to his armpit . |
| 10 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 11 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 12 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 13 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 14 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 15 | One day , tired of auditioning overdressed children of friends , he looked out of his window and saw street children arguing over a stick . |
| 16 | When the German officer began to shout abuse at the Poles , this goat leant out of his window and shouted abuse at the German officer . |
| 17 | He leaned out of his window and shouted : ‘ Watch the way you 're funking going you ugly trollop . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually someone put him out of his misery and told him , between guffaws , that he was in fact conversing with has-been '80s saddoes CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT . |
| 19 | They murmured to one another , and then they laughed because the bus-driver leaned out of his cab and made a joke . |
| 20 | His eyes twinkled and he brought a card out of his wallet and handed it to her . |
| 21 | Pascoe fished some money out of his wallet and handed it over . |
| 22 | Cranston took the greasy piece of parchment out of his wallet and handed it over . |
| 23 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 24 | Wull produced a comb out of his breast-pocket and slicked his greasy hair back in slow sweeps . |
| 25 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 26 | Patrick Maughan , 36 , jumped out of his van and ran across the road screaming : ‘ What 's happened to my family . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors . |
| 28 | And now , taking a firm grip on his two ears , she lifted him bodily out of his seat and held him aloft . |
| 29 | Just as she was turning to go , shaking with mortification , Mr Browning came out of his room and said , ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ and she turned , her face working with the effort of trying to calm herself . |
| 30 | Having dressed , she was about to go downstairs when Angel came out of his room and stopped her . |