Example sentences of "out [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 2 | Claudia stared at him blankly , unable to take it in for several minutes , and when she did she cried out and launched herself at him , her hands raised . |
| 3 | And I I said oh well that 's fair enough so I dug them out and sent them to him . |
| 4 | When I came across an article in The Times of 18 December 1964 , on cats which could swim , I cut it out and sent it to George Boas … but not to Panofsky . |
| 5 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 6 | As we lifted it , it came out and banged me on the top there , and it knocked me out , knocked me out and I was going to the doctor , but what frightened them all , this was the funny thing , what frightened them all to death , was the fact that I was violently sick you see , and all was bright red you see , and well the fireman passed out , well , do you know what it was ? we had blackcurrant ! |
| 7 | Before it grew too chilly she climbed out and dried herself on her dirty shirt before dressing . |
| 8 | And it was like , nothing , so we just extended all this out and made it into a stage come , a bigger dance floor cos the I do n't know why they wa always seem to have this trends that , they have these trends in the seventies and that was , and eighties of having small dance floors |
| 9 | Speedwell jumped over the little brook that ran down the middle of the field and when Acorn tried to follow him and fell short , Silver joked with him as he scrambled out and rolled him in a patch of dead oak leaves until he was dry . |
| 10 | A hard-faced young man stepped out and engaged him with a fixed stare . |
| 11 | The Court smoked him out and convicted him of supplying the stuff . |
| 12 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 13 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 14 | When they went into dinner and she was sitting beside Peter Suvarov , Julia took pains to draw him out and discovered him to be quite as attractive a character as his wife . |
| 15 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 16 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 17 | Impulsively now , she put her hand out and laid it on his , saying quietly , ‘ I 'm going to miss you all over again , Ben , that 's if I take this place . ’ |
| 18 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 19 | He came running out and took me by the sleeve in the darkness . |
| 20 | Dustin never forgot the importance of Henry Livings 's play in his career , and many years later , when he was making Agatha in England , he sought the modest playwright out and took him to lunch at a smart restaurant . |
| 21 | Kath snapped instructions to everyone , and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room . |
| 22 | In interview , he said he was outside the public house when Mr. Gilbert pulled a bottle out and swung it at him . |
| 23 | I would n't mind if I went out and spent it on myself , but I did n't ! |
| 24 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 25 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 26 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 27 | Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor ; beneath was a tangle of string . |
| 28 | He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand . |
| 29 | He reached out and wrenched it from her hand . |
| 30 | Owing to pressure of work , Brush evidently purchased sixteen body shells from U.E.C. for the larger cars , which they fitted out and trucked themselves at Loughborough . |