Example sentences of "they [verb] out the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 2 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 3 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 4 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 5 | They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition . |
| 6 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 7 | They shared out the thick broth and dipped their bread in it , licking their fingers . |
| 8 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 9 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 10 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 11 | As they drove out the next funeral cortège was coming up the drive . |
| 12 | You know in the paper when they give out the other week |
| 13 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 14 | They knocked out the next emplacement , but then came to one of those house-like ack-ack towers . |
| 15 | They worked out the Net Book Agreement , which dates from 1901 . |
| 16 | The anger of those who pay the poll tax will mount as they find out the additional amount that they must pay because their local authorities are unable to collect outstanding poll tax . |
| 17 | THEY rolled out the blood-red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Bram Stoker 's Dracula . |
| 18 | Well , nowadays , since they brought out the new law I think lesbian women and single women are being discriminated against because they see there 's some erm mythical er need for there to be a father figure around . |
| 19 | one , yes , erm , was another lady and child , taking beeline for birthday cake , you know , they went out the same checkout as I did |
| 20 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 21 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 22 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 23 | plus what will they get out the educational system any way |
| 24 | If they carry out the complete installation , you pay just under £2,300 . |
| 25 | They may have come upon documents relating to their early life when they cleared out the dead parents ' papers . |
| 26 | Their antics as they tease out the ripe seeds in autumn are a delight . |
| 27 | After mating these viruses , they pull out the avian haemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens using antisera previously produced by goats following exposure to the antigens . |
| 28 | But until lately very few people had managed to make themselves heard when they pointed out the dramatic effect of all previous philosophers having seen it as that of a man — that is , of course , not an exact reflection of what men are like , but an image of how they tend to see themselves when they contrast themselves with women . |
| 29 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 30 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |