Example sentences of "i [verb] out " in BNC.

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1 Statue of me Gazing out
2 It was important to learn about , for example , bookselling from experienced booksellers who then , accepting the genuineness of my interest and the possible value of my research , were generous in helping me with it and allowing me to carry out surveys in bookshops .
3 Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient "
4 Indeed , he predeceased Sir Nelson , which made my task a little easier , inasmuch as it was not necessary for me to carry out complicated inquiries in India .
5 It makes me want out .
6 Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table .
7 When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work .
8 Then I thought that if this man succeeded in cutting a hole in the side of the carriage and escaping through it , there would be an obligation on me to go out after him .
9 And I think you should know he wanted me to go out with him . ’
10 He liked her ; but then , he was keen for me to go out with anyone , as long as they were not boys or Indians .
11 Recalling that horrifying October day when she visited Courtney in Harley Street , Miss C told the jury : ‘ First , he took me into his office and asked me to go out and buy baby oil .
12 So I was put in a total quandary when my partners asked me to go out and do just that , ’ she says .
13 As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do .
14 But he was offhand with me and seemed to be waiting all the time for me to go out .
15 Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her .
16 We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well .
17 ‘ Want me to go out again ? ’ he asked softly .
18 ‘ Does — does Mr — er — Señor de Santis want me to go out there ? ’
19 You 're preparing me to go out into the street , but I still have to go back to the system first .
20 ‘ It 's true everyone expects me to go out and win all the time , ’ says Gunnell , who has managed to remain as unspoilt as she was before her Barcelona triumph .
21 Cos she was expecting me to trot out something like , yes both my parents went to grammar school like everybody else whose parents went , you know , they were all saying , yes my parents went to grammar school and they got these and these have got these qualifications and everything , I could n't believe it though , there 's a load of people in our class and like you know , all the parents are all these things and they 're not exactly brilliant , the children
22 ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’
23 ‘ Well , you wo n't need me eating out of your hand to make me fast or efficient , ’ Luce said bleakly .
24 Taking a deep breath , she demanded , ‘ Do you deny you want to have me eating out of your hand ? ’
25 Then 'e ses ter me , ‘ Jus ' so 's yer do n't ferget , ’ then 'e put me lights out . ’
26 ‘ When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it .
27 He 's so sincere , he helps me to work out my personal problems .
28 You can find me here any time of the day and in the evenings the family join me to work out and swim . ’
29 ‘ Fine by me , but wo n't Bryant smell a rat when he sees me walking out with all this ? ’
30 And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’
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