Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 2 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 3 | ‘ I was frantic that they 'd found out about the flat , where she lived . |
| 4 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 5 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 6 | But make sure , you know , you well you take over the house , so we know what 's in them in case they get thrown out with the bloody rubbish ! |
| 7 | If anyone feels they 've missed out on the award and that they know someone they fell ought to have been nominated , then they should do so next year . |
| 8 | ‘ Or it might be one of the people they 've turned out of the bins , ’ said Pam . |
| 9 | Some find it hard to make a decision because they 've got out of the habit or they no longer see the need . |
| 10 | In their notoriously fashion-based hometown they 've stuck out from the crowd by not following rules and soldering disparate musics together when everyone else was trying to fit into narrow categories . |
| 11 | They 've found out about the baby . ’ |
| 12 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 13 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 14 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 15 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 16 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 17 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
| 18 | Before they had ventured out into the snowstorm , their mother had issued instructions : ‘ Pin up your skirts before you go out into that plother . ’ |
| 19 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 20 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |
| 21 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 22 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 23 | Romford 's insurers paid the father 's claim and then sued his son , the negligent lorry driver , to recover what they had paid out under the contract of insurance . |
| 24 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 25 | They played hopscotch , their favourite , in the ever brightening sunshine , throwing a white pebble into the boxes they had marked out on the ground , and then trying to hop to where the pebble landed without touching any lines . |
| 26 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 27 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 28 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 29 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 30 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |