Example sentences of "out [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 2 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 3 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 4 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 5 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 6 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 7 | Took it out put it on the piano while I was busy playing . |
| 8 | Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap . |
| 9 | Nelson , having appointed her Anpetuwi 's own version of ‘ Dear Abby ’ , took the trouble to seek her out to consult her about a problem he was having with the chambermaid , Billie . |
| 10 | They would meet in the morning at Mabel 's house , and have a cup of tea and a biscuit before setting out to fortify them for the journey . |
| 11 | One of the girls from the village , Victorine went on : used to come out to help me with the cleaning . |
| 12 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 13 | The other day when we had a very hot day , it was quite a hot day and over mid day I went out to do something in the garden there and her milk was still on the step and it was in the sun . |
| 14 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 15 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 16 | Tonight 's crowd was a good one — Rory knew it the second her fingers curled possessively round the microphone , the atmosphere reaching out to enfold her like a lover 's embrace , and she revelled in it , her eyes glowing , her whole body tingling in response . |
| 17 | The warmth in his voice reached out to enfold her like an embrace . |
| 18 | I was going all out to turn them into the Seventies ’ strongest band . ’ |
| 19 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 20 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 21 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 22 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 23 | When a moth flies into range , it works out the exact speed and position of its victim and then flies out to pluck it from the air . |
| 24 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 25 | As she passed him to put away the files she hesitated for a moment , and instantly his hand shot out to take hers in a crushing grip . |
| 26 | Now a police truant squad is out to take them off the streets . |
| 27 | b ) People like the trolleys to keep moving slowly when they reach out to take something off the shelf . |
| 28 | 193 for the fourth wicket , with Lamb equalling Colin Cowdrey 's record of six Test centuries against West Indies , ensured a reasonable score , and 358 all out left them with a fair chance of saving the match . |
| 29 | C founds not upon the wrong , if any , done to B but on the fact that A has set out to injure him by the use of an unlawful weapon : |
| 30 | The most noticeable of them is a throbbingly emotional ballad — as if from some oriental Tom Jones — which intermittently wells out to remind you of the popular nature of the love dramas you are witnessing . |