Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 2 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 3 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 4 | He wants to get out of that office , get out into the areas , find out what is going on and do something about the problem , or I will kick his backside for him . |
| 5 | That kind of information tends to leak out to other members of the KGB hierarchy . |
| 6 | Enzensberger 's whole position , which seems to cry out for such examination , leads only to an overstrained nihilism . |
| 7 | It seems to arise out of overwhelming compassion for the poor widow who was in the process of burying her only son . |
| 8 | As the small child tries to find out about other people 's bodily functions and especially their genitalia , its pleasure in looking is active and eroticised . |
| 9 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 10 | It usually pays to get out of basic bank and building society deposit accounts , and older schemes that have now been superseded . |