Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 2 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 3 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
| 4 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 5 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 6 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 7 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 8 | The priests had a mulberry tree , which last year had come near to ruining the woman 's trade , spattering the linen of the town with a roan signature , as the pulpy fruit fell from its higher branches , or was dropped by feasting birds or even wasps ; in fact , she did not know how so much staining happened , but it was the devil to scrub it out , and she risked wearing out the cloth itself with ammonia or other solvents . |
| 9 | She began to take out the postcards , revealing the snapshots underneath . |
| 10 | As Gedanken peered into the bubble she began to make out the spacecraft . |
| 11 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |
| 12 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 13 | While she started sorting out the lettuce from the spinach I took my leave and went up to my room . |
| 14 | With an enormous effort , she managed to blurt out the words : ‘ Accident … . |
| 15 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |
| 16 | But , in a television interview , she appeared to rule out the possibility of a reconciliation . |
| 17 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 18 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 19 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 20 | She had rinsed out the tub , and lowered the big and tarnished metal plug into the hole . |
| 21 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 22 | She rose from the bed where she had spread out the rosettes , strode to the window and stared down into the garden . |
| 23 | When she had spread out the tea-things , Mrs Syms said : |
| 24 | By the time the water had heated she had spread out the sleeping-bag before the fire , laid out a fresh shirt , and found something to use as a wash-cloth . |
| 25 | She had picked out the combat model . |
| 26 | He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made . |
| 27 | She wanted to sort out the Social Security first . |
| 28 | She wanted to find out the extent to which children are aware of differences between spoken and written language , of features that might pass muster in speech but not in the written word . |
| 29 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |
| 30 | She wanted to tear out the truth , to demand it , to extract it with magnets of iron , to burn it out of this man with a desperate scream if needs be . |