Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] out [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sharp icicles fly out from the caster 's hand and strike the first unit or model in their path .
2 Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance .
3 And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders .
4 Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair .
5 Gittins 's work is useful not only because of the way in which she highlights gender , but also because her empirical data broaden out from the household and show that women at least have , under certain circumstances in the past , been involved in the use of kin relations to maximize resources across households .
6 Your eyes look out into the world around you .
7 ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input .
8 The decor is a fascinating mix of antique and modern and the bedrooms look out to the countryside .
9 Competition between consumers for a given commodity may , for example , tend to force its price upward ; each consumer is careful not to consume beyond the point where the marginal purchase is just worthwhile ; during the process , those who are less eager consumers of marginal units drop out of the race earlier .
10 The approval of the Animal Welfare Committee at the Durham VA Medical Center was obtained before all studies and care of animals conformed to the guidelines set out in the Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals .
11 Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former .
12 The objectives of the new agency would be to assist the Community and the Member States to achieve the goals set out in the Treaty of Rome and in successive environmental action programmes ; it must also , however , be seen in the context of the European Council 's adoption on 2 December 1988 of the Rhodes Declaration on the Environment and the environment chapter in the Single European Act which comes into effect in 1992 .
13 Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne .
14 The readers find out about the kind of organisation they are dealing with .
15 Tears at Halifax , where Hereford 's win meant the Yorkshire side go out of the football league .
16 When our teenagers go out for the evening , most of them use something , if only occasionally , as a social prop .
17 I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner .
18 Sam Rollins and Dwayne and Carlos go out to the plane to split the coke .
19 Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom .
20 Dominant hens assert their priority by pecking subordinate hens : pecked subordinate hens move out of the way of the pecker , to allow the dominant hen access to the nesting site , or roosting site she was using , or the food she was about to eat .
21 The membership of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1939 never exceeded 54 countries , whereas some 160 nation states , covering almost the entire globe , are members of the present United Nations , and the numbers are still increasing as new nations arise out of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union .
22 The two cars swing out of the palace gates , and disappear down the avenue .
23 Little red huts stick out in the sea , the backdrop is spiky Snowdon-sized mountains straight up , and the place is deserted .
24 Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy .
25 The book , published by Methuen and called Don ; t Climb Out Of The Window , sprang from a writing class at Richard 's school .
26 Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion .
27 After a brief wait and an exchange of pleasantries with Renee , Yanto carried the two brimming mugs back out into the sun and joined Selwyn on the bench .
28 Collins ushered Patrick and Jane back out onto the street — just in time to see the car come chuffing around the corner .
29 Jobs have been lost , mortgages forfeited and folk put out on the street — with their dogs .
30 Evidently there were nesting holes in the sheer face below them , for as the light grew they saw three or four martins dart out over the stream and away into the fields beyond .
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