Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] out a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ?
2 I 'm going to spell out a warning to the aeroplane pilot by making you all into letters .
3 Behind the tarpaulin there were tables and chairs for the RCM workers , mostly , as an American journalist noticed , elegantly turned-out young ladies who looked ‘ a good deal more like a junior league committee getting together to discuss a costume ball than officials waiting to sort out a trainload of Jewish refugee children ’ .
4 One member of the pair was told by his/her partner ‘ I am going to read out a list of words to you .
5 I 'm now going to read out a number of interests .
6 Next month I 'm going to tab out a request from Mr Bob McGhee , of Basingstoke , who has asked for Don Rich 's solo from Buck Owens ' Love 's Gon na Live Here .
7 When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places .
8 So there we were trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement .
9 So there we are trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement .
10 ‘ Especially , ’ Angelica said , ‘ when you 're trying to make out a form for somebody whom you know wo n't appear anywhere in the records . ’
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