Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] out [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 2 | ‘ Our host did slip out to attend to the claret … ’ |
| 3 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 4 | Our engineer friends had collected crusty rolls from the dining room and , after a few drinks themselves , had set out to experiment with the sea-gulls ' capacity for whiskey . |
| 5 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 6 | The stopper was missing and the brandy had trickled out to soak into the sisal matting which covered the floor . |
| 7 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 8 | The windows to either side had been thrown wide as well , and the ends of the tattered old curtains had blown out to hang over the sills . |
| 9 | Er we intended to go out to go to the garden centre I did n't do any of it . |