Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] out [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) .
2 The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis .
3 The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation .
4 For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year .
5 Now the words tumbled out in a rush .
6 Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village .
7 Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite .
8 The words came out on a sneer .
9 The words came out in a rush and she felt her face flame .
10 The words came out in a rush .
11 The words came out in a rush , and with an infuriating blur of tears she thrust her wine glass into Anneliese 's hand , spun on her heel and walked swiftly away .
12 Caroline could almost see her building up her courage , and then her words came out in a rush .
13 Gilbert forced himself to become calm , drew a deep breath and then the words came out in a torrent .
14 His words came out in a stammer .
15 The fierce note in Rose Hilaire 's voice got through to Dagmar Blond , who stopped talking at once , but the last phrase on her lips came out like a ghost : ‘ seeing yourself kill — ’ The last word of all disappeared .
16 Coming is easy , roundabouts and swings , and fucking you is a big dipper with no brakes flying out across a midnight ocean under a chandelier of stars .
17 Suddenly the words rushed out in a jumble of grievance and anger .
18 The words struggled out through a tangle of sobs .
19 It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates .
20 Superimposing the pattern of a sound wave ( such as a person 's voice ) on to an electromagnetic wave ( such as the radio waves sent out from a telephone ) is simple and effective .
21 A BIBLE 'S throw from Harrods , guitar-strummed folk songs waft out of a church .
22 Her words shot out in a clatter .
23 Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening .
24 As adjunct to its education policy the BDA has recently embarked on a youth policy for reasons spelt out in a resolution passed by the Rothesay Congress in 1986 : This Congress recognises that the future development of the deaf community requires the full participation of deaf children and young people .
25 Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber .
26 Ledger work — writing out the transactions carried out by a company in a day book , book-keeping and sometimes calculating the staff wages
27 This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant .
28 Hill , these tunes leap out from a radio like recent Def Leppard , Nelson and Aerosmith singles , and once you 've got airplay , you 've got America .
29 Hill , these tunes leap out from a radio like recent Def Leppard , Nelson and Aerosmith singles , and once you 've got airplay , you 've got America .
30 If they are not , monofilament nets must be replaced by biodegradable multifilament nets made out of a material like cotton , which are detectable by dolphin sonar .
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