Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 2 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 3 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 4 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 5 | No-one said or did anything out of the ordinary , but still guilt made her jump when the nurse came in with lunch . |
| 6 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 7 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 8 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 9 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 10 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 11 | She fetched my rope and laid it out on a clear patch of ground . |
| 12 | We unpacked our kit and laid it out on the floor , and then started the lengthy and tiresome process of folding it ‘ à carré ’ so that it sat on our shelves in tidy , identical bricks . |
| 13 | He took her hand and led her out of the café . |
| 14 | Her eyes were only very slightly glazed as Fernando Serra tightened his grip on her hand and led her out of the Guadalquivir suite . |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't talk here , ’ he said , and led her out of the room and into the hall . |
| 16 | He signalled to the waiter that he had put two twenty-peseta notes on the table , and led her out into the afternoon sun . |
| 17 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 18 | Stephen accepted the compliment and led them out onto the terrace , asking as he did so , ‘ What would you like to drink ? ’ |
| 19 | Senga took her brother 's hand and led him out into the hall . |
| 20 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 21 | He then gave the order to move off and led us out of the abbey gate . |
| 22 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 23 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 24 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 25 | Edward was glad to escape from Shelgate Road : his father seemed to undermine his self-confidence and made him out to be ‘ several kinds of fool ’ . |
| 26 | In a way , though , that limited him and made him out of touch with modern medicine . |
| 27 | He untwisted the wire and straightened it out into a piece about a yard long . |
| 28 | It developed into a bubble , and holders — people who bought for business reasons — began to outnumber users , those who looked at it and got something out of it . |
| 29 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 30 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |