Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 4 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 5 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had my trumpet case on my knee and half a carriage to myself , so I pulled out a paperback of Gore Vidal 's latest Essays and read the one where he thinks he gets confused with Anthony Burgess . |
| 8 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 9 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |
| 10 | Once I found out the truth I would have sold it anyway . ’ |
| 11 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 12 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 13 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |
| 14 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 15 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |
| 16 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 17 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 18 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 19 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 20 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 21 | And then Ted and I went out a little bit later and we sa , we found two goldfish and two golden |
| 22 | David and I went out the other Wednesday , he said . |
| 23 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 24 | The door began to close and I put out a hand to stop it . |
| 25 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
| 26 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If I take out a chunk , you can do |
| 29 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 30 | ‘ Neither have I any time to waste , so you must excuse me if I cut out the preliminaries . ’ |