Example sentences of "it out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 2 | Since Tixier-Vignancour did not actually have any questions to ask him he decided to bluff it out to the end . |
| 3 | I may as well stick it out to the end . |
| 4 | Nathan hated them because they implied that he was terribly little and when you are terribly little you do n't want the world to keep pointing it out to you at every opportunity . |
| 5 | When she gets one she usually reads it out to me . |
| 6 | I hold it out to her so she can take lOp , and she takes the lot . |
| 7 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 8 | We follow his car as it winds through the hollows and around the hills until we reach the Moss No.3 Preparation Plant where the Pittston Company cleans and grades its coal before moving it out to power stations or abroad . |
| 9 | Then he took it out to the back and burnt every bit of paper in his Dad 's incinerator . |
| 10 | Picking up the long gun , Doyle ran his finger along the barrel and then held it out to the Hare-woman . |
| 11 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 12 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 13 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 14 | Pour it out to God . |
| 15 | Looping a line over the crosstrees , he set the storm jib , sheeting it out to port in hope of putting the greater strain on the starboard stays . |
| 16 | If you played it out to the left of the fairway it was down-wind and a difficult shot . |
| 17 | When the punch had cooled he took it out to the garden shed , within easy reach of Tibbles who , since her dose of chicken thallium , seemed to have improved in every conceivable way , and went upstairs to the bedroom . |
| 18 | This , in itself , is scarcely the disaster that Serbian nationalist propaganda makes it out to be . |
| 19 | I pointed it out to the Feldwebel . |
| 20 | It is a risky policy merely to ignore really aggressive behaviour , simply to let children or teenagers fight it out to the finish . |
| 21 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 22 | Yanto grinned and pointed it out to Billy as he came around to join him ‘ I 've found him , ’ he said quietly , ‘ and you must admit he is very hygienic . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 24 | ‘ Ca n't we take it out to sea ? ’ |
| 25 | it was the custom to tear a piece of rag from a garment , take it out to the holy well before dawn , soak it in the water and tie it to a nearby tree as an offering . |
| 26 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 27 | He picked the hambone off the rock where he had put it and held it out to Michael . |
| 28 | Bewildered , she held it out to him . |
| 29 | When I turn in the saddle and point it out to him with vigorous gestures , his curiosity is aroused . |
| 30 | He went into the kitchen , made the hot chocolate and brought it out to her . |