Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] out the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 2 | To the right is one of several photocopies of the bride , complete in outline , on which I worked to sort out the background composition in more detail , especially the position of the patterned arch on the carpet backdrop , which corresponds with the curve of the headcloth material embroidery at the bottom left . |
| 3 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 4 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 5 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 6 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 7 | I had sorted out the flat really nicely , and had some money put away . |
| 8 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 9 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 10 | Someone has plotted to kill you ! ’ and I explained what I had heard and how I had put out the fire . |
| 11 | Perhaps someone had taken out the bulb . |
| 12 | Looked as if someone had pulled out the HT lead , actually . ’ |
| 13 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 14 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 15 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 16 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 17 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 18 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
| 19 | If you 'd worked out the correlation coefficient or some measure of correlation , you would expe you 'd say that they 're positively correlated . |
| 20 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 21 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 22 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 23 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 24 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 25 | The priests had a mulberry tree , which last year had come near to ruining the woman 's trade , spattering the linen of the town with a roan signature , as the pulpy fruit fell from its higher branches , or was dropped by feasting birds or even wasps ; in fact , she did not know how so much staining happened , but it was the devil to scrub it out , and she risked wearing out the cloth itself with ammonia or other solvents . |
| 26 | While she started sorting out the lettuce from the spinach I took my leave and went up to my room . |
| 27 | But for all those like Thea Rudzinski who managed to blank out the significance of the journey there were more who shared with Helga Samuel the anticipation of worse to come . |
| 28 | But , in a television interview , she appeared to rule out the possibility of a reconciliation . |
| 29 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 30 | She had rinsed out the tub , and lowered the big and tarnished metal plug into the hole . |