Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] out the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 2 | Obviously I bring out the worst in him . ’ |
| 3 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 4 | I pull out the largest of the knives , then turn and leave the kitchen , heading down the corridor past the dining room and the study to the stairs . |
| 5 | But we can scarcely doubt , for all that , that Elizabeth must have gone to her death not a little exhausted by the duties of a wife and mother in hard times which found out the slightest weakness in every individual 's constitution . |
| 6 | She talks about her husband as if he 's a superior being — and she imagines George is one , too , which brings out the worst in me . |
| 7 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 8 | ‘ You bring out the worst in me , woman , ’ he said , leaning over her and supporting himself on his hands , one on either side of her head , trapping her . |
| 9 | ‘ You bring out the worst in me , ’ she muttered . |
| 10 | I told you , you bring out the worst in me . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ that you bring out the worst in me . ’ |
| 12 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 13 | The package is designed to help you work out the best way of controlling your finances over the period of a year . |
| 14 | But the man who carried out the latest probe , Manchester University social sciences professor Howard Parker , said they were ‘ nothing to be terribly worried about . ’ |
| 15 | In this special feature we check out the latest treatments and appliances — from reflexology to electric razors . |
| 16 | Oh well you know peo people that throw their clothes around and untidy , they turn out the best of people . |
| 17 | The weekend would be good for people who would never consider going — it bring out the best in you . ’ |
| 18 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 19 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 20 | It brought out the best in our members and it brought out the best in the trade union movement . |
| 21 | It brought out the best in our members and it brought out the best in the trade union movement . |
| 22 | It brought out the worst in Bank Management in terms of intimidation . |
| 23 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
| 24 | For belief in God , they would argue , is a very practical matter which is not given up lightly , particularly if it brings out the best in the believer : ‘ Belief or unbelief / Bears upon life , determines its whole course … |
| 25 | It brings out the best in us . |
| 26 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 27 | That 's what brings out the best in me . ’ |
| 28 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |