Example sentences of "out and [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to cope , to face this , to brave it out and lay a certain ghost . |
| 2 | Get it out and take a close look at it . |
| 3 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 4 | ‘ I could go out and conquer an entire army , ’ he told her , bending to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 5 | If it bursts then net the fish out and apply a tiny dab of TCP or Gentian Violet to disinfect the wound and it will probably heal up all by itself . |
| 6 | I could no more go out and mug an old lady than I do n't know what … . |
| 7 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 8 | The Bears have had two of their scheduled fixtures washed out and suffered a heavy defeat at Edinburgh . |
| 9 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 10 | On to a Category C , given home leave , first thing he does on home leave is go out and kill an Asian man . |
| 11 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 12 | Desmond reached out and laid a sympathetic hand on her arm . |
| 13 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 14 | To which Tupper replied , " Go out and declare a national strike of seamen , in spite of the war " . |
| 15 | ‘ Now take it out and keep a firm hold on it . |
| 16 | One night he heard a loud noise in the yard , looked out and saw a black person apparently being whipped — as he thought , to death . |
| 17 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
| 18 | He cleared the board and was about to play again when the boy 's hand reached out and took a white stone from the bowl to his left . |
| 19 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 20 | You should put it in your building society and then draw it out and get a few bob on it . |
| 21 | So Oh I say , I 'll cut it out and make a wee hole and transport part of the wood work across the window . |
| 22 | Come out and had a nice can of beer . |
| 23 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |
| 24 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 25 | PEARL HARBOR saw a power too long underrated by the world lash out and inflict a crippling blow on a huge country . |
| 26 | Most writers go through a series of fumbling stages , groping for ideas , before they manage to sort them out and develop an organized plan . |
| 27 | In many areas it is simply impossible for them to go out and win a big share in an intensely competitive market without the Government 's explicit support and cooperation . |
| 28 | After I heard it I went out and found an early news-stand . ’ |
| 29 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 30 | If we find the rules of a particular activity uncongenial or impossible to keep , we can , at least in principle , contract out and play a different game . |