Example sentences of "out [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His line of chat , and a bonhomie which could at times border on insensitivity , marked him out for her as a survivor ; someone with whom she could risk herself ; someone who could both carry and withstand her .
2 ‘ Yes , I brought her the tray Mrs Porter had set out for her in the kitchen .
3 Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library .
4 It 's only one o nine , I 'm gon na get some out for me in the church , next week .
5 And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks .
6 The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify .
7 Matters can be most easily be sorted out for you on the spot whilst you are in resort , when your Representative , who is authorised to deal fully with any complaint , can see and understand the exact nature of any problems you have .
8 And it 's supposed to keep me from reaching out for you in the night , wrapping my arms around you , letting my lips tangle in your hair … ’
9 It 's alright , I 'll look out for you in the Pentam
10 Getting lazily to his feet , he went out , and returned a few minutes later to announce , ‘ There 's a snack being laid out for you in the dining-room .
11 At last , there was a national politician who listened to lesbians and gays and spoke out for us in a way that was without fear , shame or embarrassment .
12 Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming !
13 A survey of 295 property inheritors carried out for it by the Housing Research Foundation confirmed that two-thirds of inheritors promptly sold the houses they were left , whereas 22% moved into them .
14 Inspector Blakelock , with his mouth half-open in remonstrance , his arm flung out towards her in a gesture , stiff and histrionic , of protection or restraint .
15 ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire .
16 ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire .
17 Only George knew that she had run off to Brighton with a salesman , but his mother had guessed as much and beaten her daughter 's whereabouts out of him with a belt .
18 The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place .
19 It makes , you know , if we we 're not gon na go bust just to get twelve months bloody work out of him on a service contract !
20 We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night .
21 Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end .
22 Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject .
23 The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it .
24 The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights .
25 Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement .
26 I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’
27 The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night .
28 Then , ducking his head under , he tried to free Gomez 's legs but the line was in and out of them like a cat 's cradle .
29 They both gasped as the breath was knocked out of them by the impact .
30 While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding !
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