Example sentences of "out [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton . |
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 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire . |
14 | ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire . |
15 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
16 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end . |
19 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
20 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement . |
23 | I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’ |
24 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
25 | They both gasped as the breath was knocked out of them by the impact . |
26 | 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 ! |
27 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
28 | Because although the hotpots cost a pound er most people er will will buy drinks at the bar and er we 'll make fifty P out of them in the evening at the bar so you know we 'll make five pounds from anybody we sell tickets to from now on . |
29 | We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness . |
30 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , awkwardly , ‘ I know I 've taken the piss out of you in the past . |