Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 2 | Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a ‘ social leper ’ not fit to be seen with a Government Minister . |
| 3 | Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill . |
| 4 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 5 | When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres . |
| 6 | When she returned Joyce Babcock sought her out at once . |
| 7 | The fear propelled her out of her stillness and she ran down the hill . |
| 8 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |
| 9 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 10 | The universe inside her mind exploded her out from its centre of I and other beings poured into her so that she knew their inner selves . |
| 11 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 12 | Corbett followed him out of the house . |
| 13 | And although Hick hit him out of the attack briefly , producing a second cameo of the series which included an extraordinary one-handed straight six , Patel returned downwind to sneak one through before the Zimbabwean could reach a maiden Test half-century . |
| 14 | Some sailors were trying to put up a small sail , but the wind blew it out of their hands , away across the sea into the night . |
| 15 | She tried to open the door to the storage-room , but twice the wind blew it out of her hands . |
| 16 | But two cars took her out against and they believe that she 's gone to the airport and they did n't know where where she was excised . |
| 17 | Using the rock and the darkness as cover , she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back . |
| 18 | Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls . |
| 19 | ‘ It is an amusing portrait as Ken pointed it out to me , discussing the intricacies of the brushwork as well as the subject matter and its religious significance . ’ |
| 20 | Inspector Berret 's suspicions intensified when Alice James and another witness picked him out in a line-up . |
| 21 | I had no conscious awareness of the Latin root of the name Hilary until Antonia Byatt pointed it out to me . |
| 22 | The Russian twisted it out of his grasp as they rolled over and over , locked in a kicking , butting embrace . |
| 23 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 24 | The Standing Orders Committee ruled it out of order under rule A three , within the remit of Congress . |
| 25 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 26 | Although Mark 's expert navigation round the lesser-known hedegrows of Hampshire got us out of the bumper-to-bumper mess , I almost regretted leaving cos I expect there was a huge party somewhere on the middle of the M3 ( ‘ let's all have a disco ’ , etc . ) |
| 27 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 28 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 29 | As Nancy helped him out of bed , Sikes swore and cursed at her clumsiness . |
| 30 | Juliet and Tunney helped her out of the tank . |