Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 2 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 3 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 4 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 5 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 6 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 7 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 8 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 9 | But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials . |
| 10 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 11 | But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols . |
| 12 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 13 | Within moments of our first encounter , he has whipped out a Photo-Me booth shot of his newborn baby daughter . |
| 14 | At first Minton felt he was too involved with things to get away : ‘ As for Dimbulb Verrico , ’ he told Hunt , ‘ he has taken out a licence to marry his motorbicycle , and I have not seen him since you left … |
| 15 | It 's one topic where he has figured out a way of linking present to past that really gets fourth-years moving . |
| 16 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 17 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |
| 18 | He wants to hammer out a way of relating its rather unexciting research sponsorship to the need to foster collaborative research on new ideas in European industry . |
| 19 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 20 | Each time he 'd banged out the flames . |
| 21 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 22 | ‘ And get rid of that ! ’ she clearly recalled hearing Naylor tell her — in fact , the way he 'd bellowed out the order , it would n't surprise her if the whole avenue had n't heard it . |
| 23 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 24 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 25 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 26 | It was the way he 'd got out the time Barry had locked him in the tractor-shed . |
| 27 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 28 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 29 | He squinted to make out the figure above the nearest open door , but it was completely encrusted with grime ; the name and number above the next building however , was Number Two . |
| 30 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |