Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARRY LANE produced a best-of-the-week 66 to come from eight behind to force a tie with Jose-Maria Canizares ( 74 ) in the Rome Masters at windswept Castelgandolfo yesterday , only to lose out at the fourth play-off hole . |
| 2 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 3 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 4 | Companies cluster together anxious not to miss out on the latest developments and the growing pool of scientifically-skilled labour . |
| 5 | It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) . |
| 6 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 7 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 8 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 9 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 10 | A message needs to be sent loud and clear to the Church of England Synod that a complete change in thinking is vital if the new wine is not to burst out of the old wineskins and be lost . |
| 11 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 12 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 13 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 14 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 15 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 16 | For a more comprehensive list refer to books such as Guide to Reference Material by A. J. Walford , Guide to the Literature of Engineering , Mathematics and the Physical Sciences by S. Goldman and How to Find Out about the Social Sciences by G. A. Burrington . |
| 17 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |
| 18 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 19 | Somewhere across the bay of Palma a fiesta was about to break out with the usual volley of deafening rockets to launch it on its way . |
| 20 | He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear . |
| 21 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |
| 22 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |