Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a warning glitter of laughter in his eyes , and casually he dropped his cigar to the terrace and ground it out under his heel , then moved a fraction closer to her . |
| 2 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 3 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 4 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 5 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 6 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 7 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 8 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 9 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 10 | She drained her coffee , got her bag out of her locker and followed him out of the door . |
| 11 | Stephen accepted the compliment and led them out onto the terrace , asking as he did so , ‘ What would you like to drink ? ’ |
| 12 | When designing a fabric , for example , you would probably not complete the design and transfer it to the knitting machine or print it out in just one session . |
| 13 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 14 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 15 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 16 | Rose picked up a tube of sun-cream and held it out to Daphne . |
| 17 | Because you keep it all inside it against you , you begin to feel bad about yourself you begin to lose your self esteem erm you know and that 's the most dangerous thing about being bullied in terms of being at school or whether it 's even at work and being submissive is withdraw internalise and to take it out on yourself . |
| 18 | ‘ Then they said they would need the cubicle and wheeled her out into the corridor opposite a phone . ’ |
| 19 | He drew in a deep breath , paused for a second and let it out on a sigh . |
| 20 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 21 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 22 | In a trice , office machines can set the type and print it out in fine detail . |
| 23 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 24 | In those times , a poet could descend on you with all his retinue and eat you out of house and home . |
| 25 | He opened the pen and lifted it out in his arms . |
| 26 | It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts . |
| 27 | Beamish , who had been watching like a man in a daze , pulled a handful of hay from a bale and held it out to her . |
| 28 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 29 | A rotating mechanism traps the hair and plucks it out by the root . |
| 30 | Alison had seized hold of Franca 's long plait of dark hair and drawn it out from behind the chair . |