Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide . |
| 2 | Those are rocks and you are sitting on them gazing out to sea . |
| 3 | They helped specify the system and we had regular meetings so nothing got out of hand . |
| 4 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 5 | The munitions workers are not forgotten , including Joan Williams who wrote of her new job : ‘ It was nothing to leap out of bed at 5.15 on a frosty morning and I almost danced down Queen 's Road under the stars , at the prospect of the day 's work before me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If we can force them to pull out through lack of money then that is their excuse , but we do n't care as long as they go somewhere else . ’ |
| 7 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 8 | As he led the way to the kitchen and put the kettle on , he muttered , ‘ Sounds as though someone got out of bed the wrong … ’ |
| 9 | Ask yourself the question ‘ What do I want out of life ? ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 11 | Just I mean out of interest the reason why I did n't take Sheffield |
| 12 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 13 | Did I stay out of loyalty to the priest , the human being , or was there something else that compelled me to remain there , when all the more ‘ Christian ’ elements had long ago fled ? |
| 14 | Then Clay and I rode out on horseback for a tour of the beautiful sage-covered landscape which seemed to stretch to Mexico . |
| 15 | As I rode out of town , past the railway station and its ‘ Welcome to Prestatyn ’ message , to alighting holidaymakers , I could not help thinking that they certainly were . |
| 16 | I was at Low Newton a couple of weeks and then I got out on bail and went to see Stephen , but then I got lifted again , back to Low Newton . |
| 17 | I got out on bail , I think it was my probation officer who rang up . |
| 18 | Switching on the bedside light , I got out of bed and fumbled into my bathrobe . |
| 19 | I got out of bed , packed a suitcase , wrote a note for Richard saying I was leaving him , and walked to the station . |
| 20 | Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move . |
| 21 | Jean-Claude , exhausted by the long ride from Paris and a late night of in-toxication , moaned something unintelligible as I got out of bed , rolled over and promptly went back to sleep . |
| 22 | I got out of bed and put on my dressing-gown with shaky haste . |
| 23 | I got out of bed suddenly and fumbled for some money . |
| 24 | Last night it cried like a little child , and I got out of bed and went to the window to listen . |
| 25 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 26 | One night I got out of bed and drove — very badly — to an office . |
| 27 | I got out of bed gah ! — and then picked myself up off the floor . |
| 28 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 29 | and I heard it all before I got out of bed . |
| 30 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |