Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pers pn] out " in BNC.

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1 Somehow or the other , he was not sure how , she had dished him out a plate of stew and he was sitting eating it .
2 Every time it had crept into Carolyn 's head , she had pushed it out again .
3 Sometimes she had to lift it out , feed it , and change its nappies , thick with excrement .
4 She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things .
5 She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning .
6 As Lizzie says , ‘ God knows , we 're poor enough , but it would be a relief in a way to be certain that she had cut us out altogether .
7 His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on .
8 Two-thirty in the afternoon and she had dragged him out of bed ?
9 But she had done it out of love .
10 and she had brought them out
11 Which was strange , as she had spelt it out very clearly less than a year before , in a BBC TV interview .
12 Perhaps the answer out of the mouths of her babes … he had this mad idea of working with refugees ; politically , of course , it would be an absolute nightmare , but she was sure she had talked him out of it .
13 Whatever evidence Bishop had on the Doctor , she had to check it out .
14 So she had worked it out .
15 Luxuriating in the public attentions of such a suitor , she had drawn it out too much , perhaps , so that the final acceptance had come after the optimum moment .
16 With seeming irrelevancy she remembered stowing the arrow in fitzAlan 's pack when she had pulled it out of his arm .
17 In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully .
18 ‘ No wonder she had to knock you out . ’
19 Several of his perfumes seemed promising and in the end she took away samples in three small bottles and promised that she would return when she had tried them out .
20 She had helped him out of his jacket , tie and shoes , reckoned he would n't come to any great harm if he slept in his damp shirt and trousers , and placed a duvet over him .
21 She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted .
22 She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused .
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