Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 9 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 10 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 13 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 14 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 15 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 16 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 17 | It was in the Fifties , however , that Gerard P. Kuiper said turbulence in various parts of the cloud was likely to make the cloud sufficiently dense to flatten it out into a disc-shaped mass , with a large mass at the centre orbited by smaller ones . |
| 18 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 19 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 20 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 21 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 22 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 23 | The US government , which has no relations with the PLO and has sought consistently to keep it out of the Middle East peace process , said the request was still being discussed five hours later when news arrived that the 62-year-old chairman had been found . |
| 24 | Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal . |
| 25 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 26 | So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt . |
| 27 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 28 | WOOD GROUP Haven Engineering , met Sony [ UK ] Projects Department , on 29 April to battle it out for the recently-established Wood Group Haven v Sony [ UK ] Snooker challenge cup , at the Snooker Centre , Bridgend . |
| 29 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
| 30 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |