Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 2 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 3 | Leith broke off , suddenly appalled that he must think that his cousin Travis was helping her out with her mortgage repayments . |
| 4 | He was eating something out of a box . |
| 5 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 6 | Peter Davies , Eastbourne 's captain , told his players on the eve of the event that they were stroking the ball well and that they could upset the odds but added he was booking them out of their hotel . |
| 7 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 8 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 9 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 10 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 11 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 12 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 13 | We took our leave of a sombre-visaged Queen Margaret and within the hour the steward 's guide was leading us out of Royston Manor and into the mist-shrouded countryside . |
| 14 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 15 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 16 | Here was another person who knew her father better than she did , a person who was pointing it out with little subtlety . |
| 17 | I was pointing it out to my passengers when I heard ‘ Mayday ! |
| 18 | You can tell him I was pointing it out to you , should he have the bad manners to bring up the incident . ’ |
| 19 | He would n't of come th wa on his Saturday before his birthday he would n't of come and seen me unless he thought he was getting something out of it . |
| 20 | I mean , he was getting something out of the cupboard , ha nothing to do with me ! |
| 21 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 22 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 23 | The Man had taken his jacket off and was holding it out in front of him and all of them could see what he intended to do . |
| 24 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 25 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 26 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 27 | No , the sensible thing to do was to put it out of his mind and never refer to it again . |
| 28 | He 'd think I was saying it out of spite . ’ |
| 29 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 30 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |