Example sentences of "out [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 2 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 3 | Er we intended to go out to go to the garden centre I did n't do any of it . |
| 4 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 5 | She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic . |
| 6 | By now she was awake enough to feel a stab of regret that she would n't be going out to glide over the surface of that calm blue water after all . |
| 7 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 8 | ‘ Our host did slip out to attend to the claret … ’ |
| 9 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 10 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 11 | You have n't really got the answer at all you 've just written it differently and that 's all it means whatever you 're sharing out goes on the top what ever number of people of people it 's being shared out between go underneath . |
| 12 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 13 | In an emergency Commons debate on the Sterling situation , the Prime Minister has ruled out returning to the Exchange Rate Mechanism unless it is changed . |
| 14 | Graham Gooch won an important toss but then fell in the seventh over , clearly surprised to be given out caught at the wicket . |
| 15 | Yet this paper led to our century 's great revolution in astronomy , for here an American engineer , Karl Jansky , announced his detection of ‘ static ’ , which turned out to come from the sky . |
| 16 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 17 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 18 | She and her father were out walking on the day he died . |
| 19 | A casual meeting whilst out walking on the Moor , even in your hidden places , is one thing . |
| 20 | They had been out walking in the garden when Hal had suggested he go with him and see Ben 's room . |
| 21 | Out walking in the fields , Eley found a bullet |
| 22 | Lucker fills up and checks the car , whilst I buy some food , zap it through the microwave , and bring it out steaming to the car . |
| 23 | Cranston stood up and linked his arm through Athelstan 's as they went out to stand at the door whilst the ostler saddled their horses . |
| 24 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 25 | A PAIR of TV newsreaders have been suspended from duty after they burst out laughing during the evening news . |
| 26 | The editor 's look suggests displeasure , but I am too elated to worry and with a skip I whirl into the revolving doors and out laughing into the night.But now , what a fiasco ! |
| 27 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 28 | I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat . |
| 29 | Most of our lodgers go out to work during the day , but Miss Hoffmann is not in good health . |
| 30 | Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together . |