Example sentences of "and [vb past] out a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Potter took a glass of sherry , and shared out a bottle of sparkling wine . |
| 2 | Ms Harriet Harman , the shadow health spokesman , visited Darlington this week and laid out a vision of life under Labour . |
| 3 | Later he built a series of fine warehouses and laid out a dock estate . |
| 4 | She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid . |
| 5 | The young man sank slowly into the seat opposite him , and got out a cigarette . |
| 6 | Mamma got a big knife and cut a large slice of cake , put it on a plate , and got out a fork . |
| 7 | Maria snapped , and flung out a hand , unconscious of the helpless appeal allied to imperative demand in the gesture as control slipped once more . |
| 8 | Athelstan dipped into his purse and drew out a coin . |
| 9 | The boy fumbled in the pocket of his shirt , and drew out a couple of crumpled notes . |
| 10 | And he took a poisonous viper and forced its mouth open , and inserted a glass under its fangs and drew out a couple of drops of deadly poison . |
| 11 | And when she brought it to him , he did not take it from her , but only felt in the deep pocket stitched into its lining , and drew out a parchment rolled and sealed , which he reached across the table and laid before Iago Vaughan . |
| 12 | He stood , and with a great sweep of his hand , bowed , said ‘ servus ’ , and drew out a chair for his lady guest . |
| 13 | At this moment , the driver who had already been braking to come into the station , applied his brakes even more sharply and blasted out a warning on his whistle . |
| 14 | He unzipped the bag and lifted out a chainsaw . |
| 15 | Tessa walked over to it and lifted out a handful of the money . |
| 16 | As she watched him in silence he slid open one of his desk drawers and lifted out a sheaf of papers . |
| 17 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 18 | He shot out of bed and poured out a glass of mineral water . |
| 19 | She pushed at the curl , then reached down for the shoulder-bag that lay at her feet and dug out an ebony hair pick . |
| 20 | He sat her down next to the piano , and tinkled out an arpeggio to announce the performance . |
| 21 | She held one end of a white tape in one hand and measured out a length with the other which was several times the distance from her elbow to the second finger of her hand . |
| 22 | Henry unscrewed the top of the brass cylinder and shook out a bundle of sticks on to the table . |
| 23 | Rose went over to the washbasin and rinsed out a tumbler . |
| 24 | I thought I heard a thankless boy raising his voice against those that clothed him and suckled him and spent out a fortune on the making of him . |
| 25 | We were a little disappointed — or at least I was — with David because he was n't in a dress and he was n't nearly as crazy as we thought he would be , but nevertheless , we liked his music a lot and he introduced us from the audience and Cherry Vanilla stood up and popped out a tit for the other 20 people , and David said that we were doing Pork . |
| 26 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 27 | Howard reached inside his brown leather jacket and pulled out a note-pad and pencil . |
| 28 | Then he felt inside his long cloak and pulled out a map . |
| 29 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 30 | She opened a claw and pulled out a sliver of succulent flesh . |