Example sentences of "out and [vb past] 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 | The Bears have had two of their scheduled fixtures washed out and suffered a heavy defeat at Edinburgh . |
| 3 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 4 | Desmond reached out and laid a sympathetic hand on her arm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Come out and had a nice can of beer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not in the sense that the County Council went out and did a measured assessment which said , Right this particular district can accommodate X thousand dwellings in areas which are n't greenbelt or which are greenbelt or individual factors . |
| 12 | Eric and myself went out and did a physical re-count last week of wha a whole bay of because numbers were n't adding up . |
| 13 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |