Example sentences of "[vb past] it out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares .
2 She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water .
3 Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design , I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers .
4 He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place .
5 Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity .
6 And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) .
7 In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before .
8 The late Nancy Mitford blew it out of all proportion by her ‘ snobbish ’ ( often tongue-incheek ) writings , which have been taken far too seriously by many .
9 It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts .
10 He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today .
11 Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs .
12 Well it means we had one and we shared it out between six people .
13 If we shared it out between six people would we get more or would we get less ?
14 If you shared it out between three people how many so they all got the same how many would they get ?
15 Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour .
16 It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material .
17 When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres .
18 I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’
19 Interestingly enough , Laplace included it in only the first and second editions of his book The System of the World , and left it out of later editions ; perhaps he decided that it was a crazy idea .
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