Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] out [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 5 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 9 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 10 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 19 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 20 | It is essential that both the person authorising the research , and the individual or agency carrying it out , are in agreement about the objectives of the exercise and the approach to be taken to carry it out within the requisite cost constraints . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 22 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |
| 23 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 24 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 25 | Mr Maan said he hoped the region would fully co-operate with the CRE to get everything out in the open and sorted out . |
| 26 | Mr Maan said he hoped the region would fully co-operate with the CRE to get everything out in the open and sorted out . |
| 27 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 28 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 29 | In a flash she was off her bed and on her way to have it out with the one man responsible . |
| 30 | Hundreds of pounds ? it 's such an important issue , we ought to have it out in the open , and let's tell the taxpayers what these people say |