Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] out the [adj] " 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 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 3 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 4 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
| 5 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
| 6 | So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory . |
| 7 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 8 | I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . " |
| 9 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 10 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 11 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 12 | And er it was lovely and we were enjoying it until I pulled out the whole chicken 's head . |
| 13 | With Mr. Capel , the WANO Manager , and relevant team members , I spelled out the unacceptable situation to the Bulgarians and its consequences — no unit restart that year . |
| 14 | It 's the smaller things that get you down — like when I went out the other day to buy a dress for my god daughter 's birthday . |
| 15 | I went upstairs to see the bloke in my bed and I thought this is lucky it was three bloody dogs in your garden when I went out the other night . |
| 16 | David and I went out the other Wednesday , he said . |
| 17 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 18 | Er , I went out the next day to go to er th yeah that was a Sunday I lost it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 21 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 22 | I cleared out the forgotten corners which exist in every family home , sending old clothes to jumble sales , and asking boy scouts to collect useless piles of old newspapers and magazines . |
| 23 | Then someone pointed out the inadequate access to the site through the maze of streets . |
| 24 | I not only drove , I pointed out the darkened entrance to the Mimosa . |
| 25 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 26 | I missed out the boring bits about HiIbs by the way ! ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bruce Springsteen began the Eighties with The River , an uneven double album but one which staked out the broad territory over which he would roam in the ensuing years . |
| 29 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 30 | BOSNIAN Serbs and their Serbian backers were yesterday condemned for war atrocities by the United Nations Human Rights Commission which singled out the systematic rape of thousands of Muslim women for particular criticism . |