Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had traced Tunney out of the City to a big house with high broken-glass-topped walls where the rich and inebriated pay to have their vices purged . |
| 2 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |
| 3 | He thought he could mindblast her as simply as he had put Tunney out of the picture . |
| 4 | Patrick was glad he had taken Midge out to the studio . |
| 5 | Ankle ligament damage has kept Sterland out since the end of last season and another setback means he may not return for weeks . |
| 6 | Having shut Lear out in the storm , Goneril and Regan lay ‘ a plot of death upon him ’ ( III.vi.92ff . ) . |
| 7 | Tuberculosis as a child had kept Billy out of the war , but he was now a fit twenty-six year old , as tall as Yanto , but as thin as a rake . |
| 8 | He cited the battle fought at the CPSU congress in July [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , a campaign of misinformation about Soviet policy towards the Gulf crisis ( an oblique reference to Soyuz ) , and a recent , much-repeated public boast by two deputies from the military , whom he described disparagingly as " boys with colonels ' stripes " , to the effect that having cleared Bakatin out of the way " the time had come to settle accounts " with Shevardnadze . |