Example sentences of "out [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means .
2 The employer may wish to engage specialist relocation and international removal firms to deal with the employee 's property ( rent it out or sell it ) and to transport household effects to the new location .
3 Had he singled her out or had she simply been the unfortunate rider nearest to him ?
4 Who 's job is it to dig it out or clean it out ?
5 Do you have to walk miles to turn him out or bring him in ?
6 Do not only go and see them , but take them out or bring them home .
7 I found the wire loops , though , having seen the boys set them , and I tore them out or put them under the grass on the paths the boys used to take when they came to inspect their traps .
8 But be prepared for Mother wanting to get rid of you , put you out or hide you , in some way .
9 you put them out or circulate them .
10 You do not feel inhibited because you have n't prepared adequately or fear that other people might catch you out or ridicule you .
11 When you take a book from the shelf , you probably lay your forefinger along the top edge or ‘ head ’ , and either pull it straight out or tilt it down .
12 Telling me the strangest things sometimes , evil things — till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces .
13 Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour .
14 A recruitment team faced by this kind of surge in activity is liable to have to make a decision : do we concentrate on getting the letters out or do we give priority to keeping the records in line ?
15 Did you take that out or did I ?
16 Did you even try to get it out or did you just think oh well ?
17 There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere .
18 I can then print it out or call it back and speak it sentence by sentence .
19 he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him
20 There 's … there 's the print frock I let out that fits you .
21 ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . )
22 Families expressed resentment if they came to think that they were being considered as a ‘ problem ’ family , and were quick to point out that had it not been for the arrival of the new child , they would not have needed the services of the family therapist .
23 It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion .
24 ‘ If he 's Irish , this man , I hardly need to point out that makes him officially a neutral .
25 He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster .
26 She could hear Mary Deare droning on : ‘ Her light is going faint , and if it goes out that means she is dead .
27 I 'd rather spend money doing that before they go out than send them out and the bloody things to have to come back again .
28 ‘ I take it someone has forgotten to come out and meet you . ’
29 Just our own lighting plant and the hens would even come out and meet you in the dark they knew knew you were coming .
30 You can not expect the world always to come to you — you must go out and meet it sometimes if you are going to have a full social life .
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