Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 2 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 3 | But nearby there was a very large adult macaque who had worked out an even better solution . |
| 4 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 5 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 6 | Belinda took a step towards the kitchen , but the older woman who had passed out the chicken wings offered quickly , ‘ I 'll get it , Faye . ’ |
| 7 | Thus , in the example of the punishment of a one-eyed man who had struck out the eye of another person , the Pharisee would not approve of striking out the remaining eye of the offender , unlike the Sadducee , who would . |
| 8 | The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting his park gate … |
| 9 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
| 10 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 11 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |