Example sentences of "out the [noun sg] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 2 | Delaney took out the remainder of his plastic explosives . |
| 3 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 4 | Dee disobeyed orders , told the joke and the band drowned out the rest of his act . |
| 5 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 6 | It 's up to him , as with everyone at Grendon , to see out the rest of his time . |
| 7 | He scrubbed out the map with his boot before remounting the motor cycle . |
| 8 | She could n't make out the expression on his face as he spoke , and in a way she was glad that she could n't . |
| 9 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 10 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 11 | Scouring a crumpled bank statement , he worked out how much he could afford and wrote out the cheque on his girlfriend 's back . |
| 12 | But there was one fault in the design which did not escape the sharp eyes of the Thrush Green neighbours , and John Lovell was one who pointed out the weakness to his brother-in-law . |
| 13 | Barry was unable to give the police a description of his assailant as he was always behind him and ripped out the mirror from his car before they drove to Perry 's . |
| 14 | As though , ridiculously , he could blot out the misery in his mind by destroying a picture . |
| 15 | But he thought better of it and slowly breathed out the air through his nose . |
| 16 | ‘ The murderer staggering backwards to the wall and shutting out the sight with his hand , seized a heavy club and struck … ’ |
| 17 | The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions . |
| 18 | GRAHAM Robb , Conservative candidate in Hartlepool , mapped out the course of his campaign at his adoption meeting in the town 's Grand Hotel . |
| 19 | Him who figured out the contour of his car ? |
| 20 | Boyd had not promised to do this , though he had said he would go to see the principal to straighten out the question of his leaving . |
| 21 | Tony Lewis , the chairman , set out the rationale in his newspaper column . |
| 22 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 23 | But he held out the flat of his hand towards her . |
| 24 | I had neither the patience nor the German to point out the contradiction in his argument . |
| 25 | I could never really work out the basis of his friendship with Steve and Paul They were pretty street-wise while he was just odd . |
| 26 | There is no need to over-play the slightly pathetic quality but seek out the eagerness of his search for something to do . |
| 27 | Abbot Mark says he 's definitely ruling out the use of his mitre and crozier while refereeing on the river . |
| 28 | It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness . |
| 29 | George ended up at the Private Eye 30th anniversary ball playing the harmonium and singing Lili Marlene with one of his ever-present Silk Cut hanging out the corner of his mouth , but there was no suggestion he was out of control . |
| 30 | At Eversley , where Charles Kingsley was pastor , he picked out the site of his grave and promised adjacent berths to some of his old retainers . |