Example sentences of "out and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reached out and looped his arm around her waist , his fingers splayed just beneath her breast . |
| 2 | I suppose she bought clothes like other girls , and went out and enjoyed herself . |
| 3 | ‘ I take it someone has forgotten to come out and meet you . ’ |
| 4 | Just our own lighting plant and the hens would even come out and meet you in the dark they knew knew you were coming . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I saw the airmen of the watch come out and gather it up , and all the time I was trying to make contact with the control tower . |
| 7 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I I said oh well that 's fair enough so I dug them out and sent them to him . |
| 11 | Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself . |
| 12 | Lifted a sheet out and sent it billowing through the air . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 16 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 17 | Charles cut out and kept his probably-nice review . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | ‘ I fell out and banged my funny bone . |
| 20 | Unlike them , he does have the chance to come out and lead his troops in person , purging any doubts about his leadership with the sheer , naked courage of his performance . |
| 21 | Shops like these are the only outlets for such abominations , and the only way you can stop the terrors of opening horrible gifts and feigning delight is to become rich enough to buy them out and turn them into cake shops . |
| 22 | You know I pull it out and turn it up hot . |
| 23 | Somebody once said to me ’ a reel is a reel , it holds line , lets it out and retrieves it ’ . |
| 24 | SATURDAY Nick Hancock Hugely enjoyable blast-off comedian who , like some smirking , behind-the-sheds schoolboy takes a list of his pet hates out of his pocket , lays them out and talks you through them one by one . |
| 25 | ‘ Hopefully we can go out and beat them , it 'd be great to burst their bubble . ’ |
| 26 | Eva came out and greeted him as though he were an artist returning from barren exile , Rimbaud from Africa . |
| 27 | Most things are played with conviction , most things have neat tunes and , although nothing ever leaps out and changes your life ‘ Paul Weller ’ is a decent record for a bastard hot sticky day . |
| 28 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 29 | Cross with herself for even trying to work out his peculiar behaviour , she climbed out and dried herself . |
| 30 | Before it grew too chilly she climbed out and dried herself on her dirty shirt before dressing . |