Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres . |
| 2 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 3 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 4 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 5 | ‘ Fish kept us out in 1972 , and may do so again , ’ says Gro Harlem Brundtland , the prime minister . |
| 6 | And when Derek emphasized , as he was determined to , that the contents of the letters supported his brother 's protests of his innocence , Golding heard him out with patient inscrutability . |
| 7 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 8 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 9 | Staff at London 's Games Store had sold little of anything to do with the war until the war-games club of an American military base in Britain cleared them out of T-55 tanks ( Iraq 's main battle tank ) and German armoured personnel carriers ( used by the Saudis ) . |
| 10 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 11 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 12 | The late Nancy Mitford blew it out of all proportion by her ‘ snobbish ’ ( often tongue-incheek ) writings , which have been taken far too seriously by many . |
| 13 | Beresford was handed a lifeline by Barnsley after Manchester City kicked him out in 1986 . |
| 14 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 15 | It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him . |
| 16 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 17 | Mr Thomas sent her out with another paperboy to make sure she was all right . |
| 18 | Guy Armstrong 's return to the team after a knee injury forced him out of last year 's competition has also been an essential part of the reformation of a new Scottish side . |