Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But he did n't turn round and I saw only his receding back , the narrow shoulders squared , the bent legs stepping it out in time with his men .
2 Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them .
3 I remember paramedics getting her out of the car , but I could not get out of my seat because my legs were trapped under the dashboard .
4 I can imagine members of each of these fraternities getting something out of some parts of the book — and , by serendipitous sampling , discovering interesting titbits .
5 Philip did n't believe what Lee had said about his stepdad letting him out on purpose , wanting him to get killed .
6 A battleground of historic events and a jungle of eyes watching him out of the gloom , bright eyes and eyes dulled from misuse , flaring nostrils and faded plumage and gaping jaws and once-golden beaks .
7 These were only the official words setting it out in writing .
8 Finalists in last year 's Quality Quest competition , Macmillan College , Middlesbrough and Dowdales School in Dalton in Furness are staging a rematch in Newcastle , where they are among five schools battling it out in the Northern Development Company 's competition .
9 ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday .
10 ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday .
11 The fifth heat had Italian , Czech , French and Norwegian crews battling it out in a line .
12 It is n't a question of the Director working it out for the Designer .
13 Bees were quietly going about their business , bumbling from flower to flower , the hot summer day bringing them out in force .
14 I experimented for a while with rudders on drifters , working on the principles of sailing crafts where the vane ( sail ) is set at an angle to the rudder ( submerged stem section ) so that although the wind would blow the vane at the same angle the offset rudder would make the float cut across the surface carrying it out into the lake even though the wind blew along the bank .
15 ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction .
16 Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there .
17 ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . )
18 any record material on the systems had been saved by staff printing them out into paper copy thus rendering the computer held versions only reference copies in a convenient medium .
19 But by the second day of the adventure , her escort was having trouble getting her out of the pool .
20 And when the ball does go in , Ince and Palmer must be there to stop the Turkish midfield playing it out from knockdowns and clearances .
21 bodies sweeping them out of the bay .
22 But I 'd prefer to find that out for myself , rather than having millions of people finding it out for themselves .
23 She saw Nicolo watching them out of the corner of her eye .
24 His worry about the ‘ practical ’ principles of morality is that the doctrine of their innateness prevents people working them out for themselves .
25 After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office .
26 We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton .
27 Away from their wives , and girls like Connie handing it out on a plate . ’
28 The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp .
29 Squealing mice seemed bedded in my ears , and green hoppity things abounded , but right smack in my mind 's eye were two teams of digitised Ice Hockey players fighting it out in front of a packed stadium .
30 George cleared his throat and asked : ‘ Then just who was Blagg shooting it out with ? ’
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