Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | like a cabbage white as I forked out a fiver |
| 2 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Russell ? ’ she queried as she stretched out a hand to the phone . |
| 4 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 5 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |
| 6 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 7 | As she swilled out a whisky , she caught the burning , envious eyes of her captive . |
| 8 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 9 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 10 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 11 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 12 | Eton and Lancing enjoyed rather less excitement as they fought out a dour 0-0 draw . |
| 13 | A SOLDIER who supplied transport for two younger youths intent on burglary , and kept watch for them as they carried out a theft , was fined over £300 by Alton magistrates on Tuesday . |
| 14 | POLICE discovered used syringes in the bedroom of an Alton man as they carried out a search of his home . |
| 15 | As they wrote out a ticket 30-year-old Pere Costa smashed the car 's windows , doused it in petrol and set it on fire before walking home yesterday and leaving the police to deal with the blaze . |
| 16 | The girls squealed as their feet sank into six inches of mud , but they persevered after encouragement from the boys and found the bottom much firmer as they waded out a few more feet . |
| 17 | Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves . |
| 18 | A local authority may assess a child 's needs at the same time as it carries out an assessment required under any other statutory provision . |
| 19 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 20 | Do you have to ? ’ she snarled at him as he took out a cigarette . |
| 21 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 22 | He sat cross-legged at the foot of the grave , unaware of the passing of time as he hewed out a cross with his bayonet . |
| 23 | Luke moved swiftly round the desk to where she sat , and she flinched as he put out a hand , lifting a loose , shining curl away from the side of her brow . |
| 24 | ‘ What in the world … ? ’ began Rose , feeling quite bewildered as he let out an amused laugh . |
| 25 | ‘ I think , ’ Nathan 's voice had an odd rasp as he pulled out a wad of papers and dropped them on the table , ‘ you 'd better get some sleep . |
| 26 | ‘ You can leave after lunch , ’ he said flatly , and then paused , frowning as he pulled out a vast painting of Rachel lying on a blazing sunlit beach , her slender body clad in a brief white bikini , her face young and lovely . |
| 27 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 28 | ‘ Plays funny tricks on you , does the mind , ’ Haverford said as he poured out a final nightcap of Chianti . |
| 29 | The driver shook his head dumbly , as he fumbled out a handful of crumpled bills and loose change from his pocket . |