Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 2 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 3 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 4 | The independent turn of mind of the youngsters first showed itself when they were invited to choose who to throw out of a descending balloon . |
| 5 | How are we to get out of the present mess ? |
| 6 | Tell everyone to watch out for a foreign body ? |
| 7 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 8 | Those plans hit the rocks amid reports that Jacko was horrified when Madonna told a gay magazine that she wanted him to hang out with a gay dance troupe and become more hip . |
| 9 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 10 | It is a trend that supermarkets are belatedly beginning to recognise and is forcing them to break out of the straight jacket of their centralised buying habits . |
| 11 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |