Example sentences of "out [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going .
2 When I do have to evict an intruder , I 've discovered that it 's far better to pull the weeds out rather than hoe them .
3 This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick .
4 He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed .
5 The two men were so different — opposites even : Lajos acting out his tragedy to the world Christopher-Stefan self-contained , self-reliant , intensely private , yet looking out rather than in .
6 employees think the scheme is unfair , lacks objectivity , is meant to catch them out rather than develop them
7 Canon Atkinson regarded the word as indisputedly Old Danish , and the idea that ‘ horn ’ was something to be blown as another absurdity ; ‘ horn ’ meant horned stock and ‘ garth ’ meant fence , so we have ‘ horned-stock fence ’ — but for keeping animals out rather than in .
8 Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do .
9 This provides what Eo calls a simple ‘ pen and paper ’ -style intuitive interface that requires simple writing gestures rather than keyboard skills to operate — for instance to delete text you simply cross it out rather than entering a command .
10 By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli .
11 Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha
12 And it was very difficult to erm to get to get much activity going in the flats cos people 's people 's aim was to get out rather than to improve the conditions or or work on local issues .
13 Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space .
14 BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity .
15 Perhaps not surprisingly , Cud feel their increasing popularity is due to the prevailing attitude of punters who desire a good night out rather than a drubbing from a band preaching a university thesis .
16 Whatever the style , Matcham was always prepared to bend the architecture to satisfy both the sight-lines and the all-important connection of performer to audience : tier fronts slope down towards boxes which frame the proscenium arch and , as an architectural ensemble , draw out rather than distance the performer .
17 For that reason if for no other it was essential to draw him out rather than subject him to interrogation .
18 Bitrex is the bitterest non-toxic substance known , and even a tiny drop will encourage children to spit it out rather than swallow it .
19 Perhaps not surprisingly , Cud feel their increasing popularity is due to the prevailing attitude of punters who desire a good night out rather than a drubbing from a band preaching a university thesis .
20 Tha that 's how from it , but certainly er the dog has sided with the woman and thrown the man out rather than the other way round .
21 It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price .
22 Yeah , cos then you know you 've got ta chance of going out rather than or something then you have n't got a chance at all .
23 Yeah , cos they find out right that he 's erm
24 Davidson says , I think he actually claims all you need to do is , is to develop your compositional semantics to get the truth theories coming out right and that 's the only notion of structure you need .
25 hairdryer to dry it out right and he 's drying this switch out with the hairdryer and all and everything turned the switch on and about five hundred volts were on shock so they had to call
26 Well , what we 'll do we we 'll fill these out right and then we 'll do a plot info then we got ta find out what actually he has used .
27 So obviously there 's a few tough games ahead , but you know , with erm if we set our out right and keep working hard , then hopefully we can get a few points and maybe push ourselves further up the table .
28 News leaked out locally and was confirmed last week by the Duchy , which will take on five let farms , a vacant farmhouse at the centre of the estate , and woodland with in-hand sporting rights west of the Malvern Hills .
29 Mr Hollis says the figures nationally are bourne out locally and he says he 's not surprised by the findings in the report .
30 It 's great to be out somewhere and then decide to go home , and there it is , waiting for you , and all you got to do is walk a bit and then you 'll be home and everything 'll be OK .
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