Example sentences of "and [v-ing] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed . |
| 2 | Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose we really ought to get down to some serious work , ’ Ruth suggested lazily , stretching her legs under the table and gazing out across the blue bay of Palma with its crowd of boats and yachts bobbing and , beyond , the profusion of high-rise apartments and hotels . |
| 4 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 5 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 6 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 7 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 8 | The restaurant has a loggia alongside for summer dining , and there is an attractive swimming pool around which guests can spend a relaxed and leisurely day , soaking up the sunshine and looking out to the rolling countryside all around . |
| 9 | ‘ The training year follows much the same pattern as the conventional academic year , with the main intakes arriving at the beginning of the spring , summer and autumn terms and passing out after the respective twenty-eight- or forty-four-week courses . |
| 10 | From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence . |
| 11 | As the President said the C E C are asking you to support four one O , four one three er with the qualification I 'll give you later four one four and four one five and er just thank you Linda for making me write up all the notes about that resolution and pulling out at the last minute . |
| 12 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 13 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 14 | Anyway , ’ Finch said in his ordinary voice and coming out of the interesting counterpoint , ‘ if he 's not rotten , he 's certainly out of the usual run of analysts . |
| 15 | And he turned back to the Toyota , reaching in to the rear seat and coming out with the blasting plunger . |
| 16 | A hundred parachute troops from the 2nd Parachute Battalion made this entrance on 27 February 1942 , fighting their way into the station and coming out with the vital gear dismantled by Flight-Sergeant Cox , a radar expert . |
| 17 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
| 18 | A company seeking a flotation might be better off skipping the OTC and starting out on the third market or USM . |
| 19 | But there was no punishing flame , only orange tongues consuming the huts and reaching out into the dark sky . |
| 20 | Secondly , and arising out of the first function , it will produce a substantial statistical digest of basis data which is designed to serve the needs of future generations of Agrarian historians who investigate the period 1850-1914 . |
| 21 | We stayed all day , suffering short drenching showers of rain and drying out in the hot spells in between . |
| 22 | I nod at Andy , taking yet another opened magnum and leaning out over the glass-stacked table . |
| 23 | Bullets from somewhere rapped his own aircraft , and then he was hurdling the bomber and flattening out above the battered grass of the field . |
| 24 | The most important thrust affecting the Outer Hebrides is the Outer Hebrides Thrust , a low angle thrust , dipping to the east , and cropping out along the eastern seaboard of the island chain ( Francis and Sibson 1973 ) . |