Example sentences of "and [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ .
2 With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ?
3 She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin .
4 Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century .
5 ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’
6 We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau .
7 I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa .
8 Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields .
9 Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista .
10 They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder .
11 Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water .
12 Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park .
13 When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command .
14 She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow .
15 Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window .
16 With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window .
17 Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness .
18 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
19 Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day .
20 The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible .
21 Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's .
22 And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too .
23 The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’
24 Should you decide to stick to sherry and branch out into the heavier aloroso you will have a thick head tomorrow and we will have an entertaining evening . ’
25 Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed .
26 Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets .
27 Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house .
28 It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed .
29 Disgust shivered through her , and stepping out of the reach of his hands she hissed , ‘ Get out of my house , you mucky little sod !
30 Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ .
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