Example sentences of "shake out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually she enjoyed the tasks of morning but this morning she was grateful above all mornings for the constancy of the small demanding chores : to shake out the fire , scatter the ashes on the grass outside , to feel the stoked fire warm the room . |
| 2 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 3 | She still had to shake out the sofa cushions . |
| 4 | Shake out the excess . |
| 5 | Grease a large baking dish , coat with the breadcrumbs and shake out the excess . |
| 6 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 7 | Recession shakes out the contents of the stately homes of England |
| 8 | He shakes out the match and places the spent end on the work surface beside the cooker . |
| 9 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 10 | He took the sandwich wrapping off the tea-chest and shook out the crumbs before folding it neatly and putting it into his pocket . |
| 11 | He shook out the coils , then reached out and clipped a piece from the ear of the largest hound in the pack . |
| 12 | She shook out the clothes over the scrub with more alacrity than she had shown at the washing , she was released from her error , she had escaped , just . |
| 13 | Tilda , unwatched by the other two , shook out the packets of cereal , at the bottom of which small plastic tanks , machine-guns and images of Elvis had been concealed by the manufacturers . |
| 14 | Ranulf knelt beside him , cut open the neck of the bag and shook out the contents into the small pool of lantern light . |
| 15 | While he shook out the blanket and brushed down his trousers Ruth turned her pinched face towards the sea . |
| 16 | He shook out the blanket that topped the picnic items , and sat , his back against the trunk , those long legs stretched out in front of him . |
| 17 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 18 | As soon as the dew had been burned off the grass , the whole house was in the hayfield , shaking out the heavy tangled lumps of grass the tedder had missed with the fork , raking what was light in from the edges . |
| 19 | He paused ; she could hear him shaking out the page . |
| 20 | You pop along , and I 'll shake out the sofa-bed . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 'll shake out the cobwebs , ’ Nora said , drawing in great lungsful of the breeze , until she shivered . |