Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 3 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 4 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 6 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 7 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 8 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 9 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 10 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 11 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 12 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 13 | She drawls them out with a heavy English accent . |
| 14 | Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells . |
| 15 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 16 | And at one time , we used to feed what we called , for the used to chaff some of the the poorest hay and straw and spread it out in a thick layer about oh twelve of fifteen inches high on the floor of the of the barn . |
| 17 | In most encounters with discourse , especially written discourse , we are in some way prepared for what is coming , if only because we ourselves have sought it out with a clear purpose ( Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 19 | The questions maybe that if they did what was reasonable , did they carry it out in a reasonable way . |
| 20 | For example , a person offering a service must carry it out in a proper and workmanlike way , or to a standard agreed with the customer . |
| 21 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 22 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 23 | They will mark you out as a professional — personable , efficient , and reliable . |
| 24 | We have some friends whose 21-year-old daughter was murdered by a boyfriend who threw her out of a third-storey window . |
| 25 | To provide a university education for her might mark her out as a favoured pupil . |
| 26 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 27 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 28 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |