Example sentences of "out and [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases .
2 His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face .
3 We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme .
4 While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub .
5 Those guys did n't stop the car , jump out and pick up a parcel .
6 Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance .
7 At the same time , take the trimmings , colour them brown , roll them out and cut out a door shape .
8 Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water .
9 And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week .
10 Now he reached out and picked up a pheasant wing which he proceeded to eat .
11 What seem to be the earliest human figures on Geometric vases are less precisely geometrised than these , and later they fill out and loosen up a little ; but from beginning to end of the period they are thin silhouettes conceptually conceived .
12 Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder .
13 Activities that would lead towards the objective of writing a short story might be , ‘ clear the spare room out and set up a desk ’ , ‘ enrol on a weekend workshop on creative writing ’ , ‘ set aside the next four Sunday afternoons for writing ’ , ‘ arrange to visit a friend in six weeks ’ time with a completed first draft' .
14 He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues .
15 But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ .
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