Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 2 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 3 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 4 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
| 5 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 6 | McFarlane , having spelled out with caution the Israeli arguments and the Iranian blandishments , admitted that ‘ the concept raises a number of imponderable questions ’ , including ‘ where this might lead in terms of our being asked to up the ante on more and more arms and where that could conceivably lead … |
| 7 | The 1900 Guide to the Great Siberian Railway marked out for travellers the important stations in these new trading networks . |
| 8 | ’ ‘ You go along that Blo Norton road and you 'll never see the black cat unless Alby [ we 'll call him that , though that was n't his proper name ] if Alby had disappeared out of sight the black cat was there . |
| 9 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 10 | He or she will also know local churches well and should have worked out in advance the best setting for family photographs , special effects and romantic pictures . |