Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 2 | He reached the hotel unscathed , although the burns on his jacket showed where he had beaten out the phosphorous splashes with his leather gloves , and as he followed Peter Young there were , as he later described , ‘ different sounds , from the various calibres of arms , artillery exchanges between Kenya and a coast defence battery somewhere down the fjord , anti-aircraft fire from the ships against attacking Messerschmitts , the demolitions , and the crackling roar of flames ’ . |
| 3 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 4 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 5 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |