Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stop at the drive-in bank then I drive out the highway to the lake to pick up my date . |
| 2 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
| 3 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 4 | As , managing director of business psychologists , John Nicholson Associates , explained : ‘ A crude analogy is if you are a fleet manager and one of you cars is not working properly , then you check out the problem and see if it can be fixed in-house or go to external specialists to get it back on the road in peak condition as soon as possible . ’ |
| 5 | Then she let out the breath and sagged against the desk . |
| 6 | She stared uneasily at the envelope , at the black , firm hand , at the French stamp , and then she put out the light and went to bed . |
| 7 | Then she snuffed out the light , and waited for a moment , getting her owl-vision . |
| 8 | So I , I erm , I had a lovely walk through there , and then we went out the other side of it , and it 's Highgate Cemetery . |
| 9 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 10 | I got a right ear'ole bashin' from two o' the ole dears an' then they give out the parcels . |
| 11 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 12 | Then he crossed out the sentence , savagely . |
| 13 | Some years later , in a draft version of " The Three Voices of Poetry " , he wrote that the last three quartets were patriotic poems ; then he crossed out the remark . |
| 14 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 15 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 16 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 17 | He was just saying : Tweed is somewhere ahead of us but in this fog — Then he let out the most chilling yell — Ahhhhhhh — and the link went blank . ’ |
| 18 | He stood without moving for a few minutes and then he put out the light . |