Example sentences of "and [verb] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 2 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 5 | and goes out like a lamb |
| 6 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 7 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 8 | ‘ For a man is formed and torn out of a man ’ . |
| 9 | The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous . |
| 10 | He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system . |
| 11 | Your boyfriend certainly has a communication problem and walking out on an argument is very immature . |
| 12 | This work is being designed by the Regional Council 's landscape consultants , the Turnbull-Jeffrey Partnership and carried out under a series of contracts aimed at completion by Spring 1988 . |
| 13 | It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule . |
| 14 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 15 | It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision . |
| 16 | Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char . |
| 17 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 18 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 19 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |
| 20 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 21 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |
| 22 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 23 | Tip on the concrete and level out with a rake until it is just about the level of the formwork |
| 24 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |
| 25 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 26 | Mucking about on the moor like kids will , one of 'em went into the shed and came out with a bundle , all nicely tied up . |
| 27 | Sidney reached in his pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch . |
| 28 | ’ Franks opened a drawer of his desk and came out with a polythene bag . |
| 29 | He fumbled in his jacket pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch and a pipe and offered the pouch to Wycliffe . |
| 30 | The father dashed round his vehicle and came out with a camera . |