Example sentences of "[vb past] they out " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 2 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 3 | He laid them out like they were a pack of cards spread out around him for a game of patience . |
| 4 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 5 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 6 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 7 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 8 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 9 | Mickey came up , and , taking the two girls by the hand , led them out of the house and into the back garden . |
| 10 | Stephen accepted the compliment and led them out onto the terrace , asking as he did so , ‘ What would you like to drink ? ’ |
| 11 | He pushed open the door at the top and led them out on to the roof , a broad expanse bounded by a high crenellated wall . |
| 12 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 13 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
| 14 | Corbett just grinned over his shoulder and led them out on to the beaten track down to the village of Woodstock . |
| 15 | The porter threw one venomous look at Ranulf , slammed the jack of ale down on the bench , grumblingly unlocked the postern door and led them out on to the white , dusty forest track which snaked between the trees down to Godstowe village . |
| 16 | He told them briefly what had happened and , satisfied that they had packed everything , led them out towards the Galilee Gate . |
| 17 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 18 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 19 | Painfully she straightened them out and healed the hand again . |
| 20 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
| 21 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 22 | I think we had twelve or thirteen cars , so that was twelve shifts we could cover , we had three gates to cover cover , so and forty men , and just shared them out and that was all computerized , printed out , everyone had a copy , and on the whole it worked very very well . |
| 23 | ‘ V.G.H. ’ The London detective read them out to Giles Aplin . |
| 24 | That 's why I read them out really , in case there 's any |
| 25 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 26 | Can you imagine if they got cholera on that what was that boat that got cholera on it , it wiped them out , not the Mary Celeste was it ? |
| 27 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 28 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 29 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 30 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |