Example sentences of "[vb past] out the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter drew out the second drawer with more hope . |
| 2 | Opening his desk drawer , he drew out the current Operation Cuckoo folder , and in a calm , businesslike voice , got straight down to it . |
| 3 | He reached under the saddle a second time and drew out the steel-tipped phallus that was attached by a chain to the pommel . |
| 4 | Lady Bailey drew out the top letter of the other sheaf , almost teasingly , like an actress announcing on television the award for the Best Actress of the Year . |
| 5 | She is pictured with her mum Christine and TV personality Julian Simmons who drew out the winning entry . |
| 6 | He reached into the drawer beneath the table and drew out the transparent template , then laid it down over the shaded area . |
| 7 | He drew out the heavy Colt revolver . |
| 8 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 9 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 10 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 11 | Thérèse shouted out the Holy Name of Jesus and wiped Madeleine from her mind , wiped her hands on her apron . |
| 12 | Tim found out the appalling details of his wife 's killing when he finally got through to Elizabeth 's fiance Cuan Cronje . |
| 13 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 14 | He tells us how he cried and cried when he found out the Almighty Mozzer had slung his hook and f—ed off home for a veggieburger . |
| 15 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 16 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 17 | But we can scarcely doubt , for all that , that Elizabeth must have gone to her death not a little exhausted by the duties of a wife and mother in hard times which found out the slightest weakness in every individual 's constitution . |
| 18 | I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . " |
| 19 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 20 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Players ' union chief Gordon Taylor — whose organisation helped out the United players with wages — said : ‘ We have every sympathy for the players and supporters . |
| 23 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 24 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 25 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 26 | Reluctantly , he pulled the cord again and mercifully the red curtains blanked out the abandoned sylphide . |
| 27 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 28 | Mr Smith spelt out the new direction the EC must take to make sure it would be a community for people and not just for business . |
| 29 | Looking up , she slowly spelt out the faded letters on the broken-off arm of the signpost , and then she had a shock . |
| 30 | It was the Queen , not Prince Philip , who spelt out the brutal alternatives . |