Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 2 | Lying there in his bed , she was suddenly beset by wild , crazy images of lying there in his arms , and , even as she tried to block them out , her body grew warm with the memory of the moment when he 'd kissed her in the make-up room . |
| 3 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 4 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 5 | Frowning , she looked down and began to idly trace intricate patterns on the table-top with her finger as she tried to puzzle it out . |
| 6 | — She tried to shut them out but it was as if one memory had set free another : they came clamouring now to torment and bewilder her . |
| 7 | She tried to belt it out as Fred , the Stage Manager , had advised , but Noreen was n't a belter and the heavier second house did n't warm to her as much , nor did she to them . |
| 8 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 10 | She tried to make it out . |
| 11 | Nell Anderson stopped , treading water as she tried to work it out . |
| 12 | She recalled Ian 's advice and whenever the picture came before her eyes , she tried breathing it out . |
| 13 | She 'd blurted it out before she could stop . |
| 14 | Yeah but she 'd kicked him out anyway , had n't she ? |
| 15 | She thought she 'd bailed him out but she had n't and er she said she went down she said aye like , you know , |
| 16 | She said she 'd stuck it out with my father all these years , just for my sake . |
| 17 | That brought a spot of colour to her cheeks when she 'd worked it out . |
| 18 | Well she said she 'd got it out but |
| 19 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 20 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 21 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 22 | She enjoyed figuring it out . |
| 23 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 24 | She decided to brave it out and applied for permission from the Prefect of Police . |
| 25 | The widowed queen was granted Stirling castle as a residence , but when she tried to take her son there the Keeper of Edinburgh Castle held on to him until she contrived to smuggle him out . |
| 26 | Loretta decided to put off her chat with Bridget until it was mended — it might be a lengthy conversation , and she preferred to have it out of office hours . |
| 27 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 28 | Somehow or the other , he was not sure how , she had dished him out a plate of stew and he was sitting eating it . |
| 29 | Every time it had crept into Carolyn 's head , she had pushed it out again . |
| 30 | Sometimes she had to lift it out , feed it , and change its nappies , thick with excrement . |