Example sentences of "she [vb past] out [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 2 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 3 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 4 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 5 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 6 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 7 | She straightened out the dead woman , folded her hands and tidied the bed . |
| 8 | ‘ Dëkuji , ’ she tried out a Czech thank-you to the man on Reception who sold her a stamp for three crowns and assured her her card would catch that day 's post . |
| 9 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 10 | She wrung out a real tear or two . |
| 11 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 12 | His mouth was hot as it explored her lips , his teeth nipping at her lower lip , sending exquisite frissons along her nerves until she let out a small gasp . |
| 13 | She let out a ragged sigh of resignation and wiped her hands down her shorts . |
| 14 | Jessica grabbed his bursting penis and almost pulled it into her , then threw her legs around him and her arms and crushed him until he gasped , still coming , and then she let out a mighty hoot , a hoot to wake hotel guests two corridors away , she had come as well , once , hard , like a violent convulsion . |
| 15 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 16 | When it slammed behind him she let out a long , shaky breath and felt blindly for a chair , afraid she 'd collapse without some means of support . |
| 17 | She let out a long , sobbing shriek . |
| 18 | She let out a long , appreciative sigh . |
| 19 | She let out a weak cry . |
| 20 | She let out a deep sigh of relief . |
| 21 | She let out a deep , shaky breath . |
| 22 | She let out a deep breath and struggled against the tears . |
| 23 | She let out a deep sigh of misery at the thought of all that was lost . |
| 24 | She let out a strangled cry . |
| 25 | Horror-struck , and then furiously angry , she let out a piercing scream and pushed her husband savagely away . |
| 26 | When she saw him , she let out a little cry ( that bit took ages to rehearse : every bit that required Lady Laetitia to do more than flash her tits took ages ) , then turned and ran to the end of the room . |
| 27 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 28 | She lifted out the illuminated psalter within and handed it to him . |
| 29 | She threw out the uncomfortable question , its pain-filled answer . |
| 30 | She poured out a generous measure of malt whisky and positioned the glass in front of his nose . |