Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] out [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I made out what I could :
2 So I whipped out something I 've done eleven hundred words , re-wrote it and it 's now seventeen hundred words about the house .
3 And basically they ha and the other thing , right , I found out what they had for dinner the other night right ?
4 because I 'd chase people round to find , till I found out what I wanted to know .
5 I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was .
6 Later , I found out what it was all about .
7 As I did when I found out what he 'd done . ’
8 That 's the one I found out what mine was .
9 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
10 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
11 I found out who they are just before I left to see you .
12 So I found out who they were and what they were .
13 Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening .
14 ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were .
15 I was trying my best to correct his style without imposing my own upon it , and he seemed genuinely grateful when I pointed out what I thought was a weakness in rhythm , a word to be changed , an image to be further developed , a form to be tightened or relaxed … .
16 She read out what she wanted from her list and Stuart ran to fetch it .
17 ‘ Is that why you got rid of him — because you found out what he was up to ? ’
18 But he wondered if Jessamy would ever forgive him when she found out what he had done in order to try and achieve it .
19 Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way .
20 It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time .
21 As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’
22 We sorted out what we could pay , we did try to pay it but they still repossessed
23 When he died , when they found out what he had done , he would be lucky to be buried at all .
24 They found out nothing I had n't told them .
25 That 's when they found out who he was .
26 It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him .
27 Anyway , as soon as he found out what you were doing , he 'd manage to stop you . ’
28 He got the shock of his life when he found out who I was and asked if my mother knew I was there .
29 He stuttered out what he had to say .
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