Example sentences of "drawer [coord] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melissa rummaged in a drawer and dragged out a timetable , glancing at the clock . |
| 2 | He broke off to open his desk drawer and pull out a red card-file , sliding it across the surface of the desk towards Manville . |
| 3 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 4 | He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random . |
| 5 | Then he opened the right-hand drawer and took out a duplicated news-sheet which he slid across the desk towards her . |
| 6 | Duncan sat on the edge of the other desk as the policeman opened a drawer and took out a bottle of vodka . |
| 7 | I opened my favourite drawer and took out a pint of bourbon . |
| 8 | He went back over to the telephone drawer and took out his slim and little-used address book , flicking through to find the number of his research agency . |
| 9 | His hand reached into a drawer and took out another videotape box marked HAVE THE ROYALS GOT A FUTURE ? |
| 10 | Mrs Bradford went to a drawer and brought out a small inlaid box . |
| 11 | Peg opens a drawer and gets out a nail file from a manicure set . |
| 12 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 13 | He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep . |
| 14 | ‘ Take these , ’ she said , opening a drawer and taking out a pair of kitchen scissors . |
| 15 | Manville opened his desk drawer and pulled out a large-scale world map and spread it out . |
| 16 | He looked her over , insolently , from head to foot and , putting her to one side , opened the top drawer and pulled out a pair of silk camiknickers in a soft shade of amber . |
| 17 | He reached into his desk drawer and drew out the copies of the contract , a trifle battered by yesterday 's violence , and tossed them across the desk towards her . |
| 18 | If I 've got to turn out drawers or turn out the airing cupboard or get the kitchen tidy , it 's a relaxation for me and I like it , or just going through some interior decoration books or moving the furniture round — I 'm a great mover of furniture . |
| 19 | As she watched him in silence he slid open one of his desk drawers and lifted out a sheaf of papers . |