Example sentences of "out and [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it 's shocked me that President Bush has gone out and ballyhooed the unions in Poland and yet he 's turned his back on us . ’ |
| 3 | The old heart or some other bit of my body has given out and fouled the system and I 've gone . |
| 4 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 5 | ‘ Sure , a woman could have thought it out and done the carpentering . |
| 6 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 7 | Using traditional methods ( ie. pencil and paper ) , I suppose I could easily have got the scissors out and done the same job . |
| 8 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 9 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
| 10 | Others said that Sawyer had panicked and gone straight out and given the signal without first doing the reconnoitring for which Ryan had allowed time . |
| 11 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 12 | The long arm of Mani Pulite has now reached out and grasped the head of Siemens AG 's Italian subsidiary , arresting Giorgio Scanavacca , president of Siemens Telecomunicazioni and managing director of Siemens SpA , on suspicion of corruption : the arrest was reportedly linked to alleged kickbacks to political parties paid to secure contracts with the state telephone company , ASST . |
| 13 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 14 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |
| 15 | In the end it would have been easier to have gone out and bought a ’ Persuader ’ ( remember them ? ) as used by the man himself , streets ahead of any other shop-bought ledger rod of the day . |
| 16 | Once Lutyens had sought out and co-ordinated the ideas of nearly 1,500 tradesmen , artists and authors with the gifts and donations from private sources , the Dolls ' House Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Herbert Morgan was delegated to pursue items to furnish the house . |
| 17 | By the time Lowe settled down back in London , Wilson had bowed out and handed the mantle of Leader of the Labour Party and Guardian of British Socialism to James Callaghan , the right-wing Labour MP for Cardiff . |
| 18 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 19 | Not realising that the afternoon hours had passed , she had gone out and thrown the boiling rice water on the ground . |
| 20 | And suddenly , for no reason , a pain went through her , as though he had reached out and driven a stake through her heart . |