Example sentences of "[pers pn] out [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 2 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 3 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 4 | Why not the luxurious et cetera bath , and let me take you out to a decent dinner ? ’ |
| 5 | Mm , this time they , you 've got four ones , and two medium sized ones , they sort off , almost as if there doing you out of a big size photograph . |
| 6 | They were to remember where they came from : ‘ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm . ’ |
| 7 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
| 8 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 9 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 10 | Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur . |
| 11 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 12 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 13 | It brought them out into a grassy clearing by the lake , a shallow bay with a fringe of stony beach . |
| 14 | He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise . |
| 15 | In the Littlewoods Cup two goals by Derby 's McMinn disposed of West Bromwich Albion , and Manchester City 's misery continued when Coventry put them out with a 16th-minute goal from Regis after a Redmond error . |
| 16 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 18 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 19 | He was playing with her emotions , stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure . |
| 20 | Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells . |
| 21 | We are still drying them out from a recent visit to the laundry . |
| 22 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 23 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 24 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said in what she hoped was a businesslike manner , ‘ I 've come to see if you can help me out on a special job . ’ |
| 26 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 27 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 28 | that 's what I said they thrown him out into a mad house |
| 29 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 30 | From his origins in Protestant East Belfast , his exhilarating ball control and deceptive change of pace marked him out as a unique prospect in an area accustomed to discovering football talent . |