Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | I not only drove , I pointed out the darkened entrance to the Mimosa . |
| 24 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 25 | I missed out the boring bits about HiIbs by the way ! ! |
| 26 | " You laid out the dead ? " |
| 27 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 28 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 29 | Cleaning lady move the bed and you got out the wrong side or what ? ’ |
| 30 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |