Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [conj] [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 2 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 3 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 4 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 5 | I must collect my gear and check out of the hotel … |
| 6 | Then I took the bag to my boat and sailed out to sea . |
| 7 | Somebody stayed in my room all night and , whether it was my father , Diggs or anybody else , I kept them and me awake all night by lying quiet for a while , feigning sleep , then screaming with all my might and falling out of bed to thrash about on the floor . |
| 8 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 9 | Just give me a moment to grip my nose and blow out through my eardrums . |
| 10 | ‘ I was putting on my tie and sweating out of my mind . ’ |
| 11 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 12 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 13 | I slid out of bed , put on my dressing-gown and padded out to the tiny landing . |
| 14 | I put on my dressing-gown and went out of my room . |
| 15 | He shook my hand and strode out of the tavern . |
| 16 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 17 | I heard Marcus putting food in my bowl and hurried out to the kitchen . |