Example sentences of "out and [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |
| 2 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 3 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 4 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
| 5 | In the end it would have been easier to have gone out and bought a ’ Persuader ’ ( remember them ? ) as used by the man himself , streets ahead of any other shop-bought ledger rod of the day . |
| 6 | And suddenly , for no reason , a pain went through her , as though he had reached out and driven a stake through her heart . |