Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 4 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 5 | It replicates itself , and each new copy , which is independent of the original , goes on to carry out the task for which the virus was designed . |
| 6 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |
| 7 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 8 | Fair enough , but my point is this : if you 're bitten by a pye-dog and the wound becomes infected , is it sensible behaviour to carry on hanging out with pye-dogs ? |
| 9 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 10 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 11 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 12 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 13 | However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building . |
| 14 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 15 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 16 | The man nodded and smiled all over again — rather encouragingly , this time — and then , smiling in a somewhat more valedictory sort of way , edged slowly back out through the door . |
| 17 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 18 | Social elitism , it is frequently asserted , effectively squeezes out working-class interests . |
| 19 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 20 | As its prospectus very properly pointed out , the subsidiary Crane Engineering Ltd was in receivership , but this fact was not pointed out to investors by Eyas dealers . |
| 21 | It has also been acutely pointed out that the title ‘ philhellene ’ , which was perhaps first given to Alexander I by writers of the fourth century , actually implies a denial that he was Greek . |
| 22 | Anticipating the detail of the National Curriculum and assessment arrangements is unlikely to be helpful , as Circular 5/89 revealingly points out . |
| 23 | She rarely goes out and has never been beyond the street she lives in on her own . |
| 24 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose your father rarely goes out ? ’ |
| 26 | Mr Norrie rarely goes out because he seldom feels well . |
| 27 | Mick disappeared from sight while the rope slowly crept out . |
| 28 | Consider the immense energies slowly eating out their heart up there , ’ — he nodded upwards at the sun , dazzling westwards across the lake — ‘ and the Pentecostal flame which brings the gift of tongues . |
| 29 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 30 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |