Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] out [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is set to change if the Government agrees to plans by Oftel , the telecommunications industry regulator , to centralise the 999 emergency service by contracting it out to a private Call Handling Agency . |
| 2 | This is best done by spreading it out on a piece of paper and running an algae magnet , wrapped in a polythene bag , over the particles . |
| 3 | This , to his great astonishment , caused a considerable disturbance ; and when he inquired what the people meant by putting themselves out over a black man , an Englishman who was passing answered : ‘ Well , perhaps you do n't know it , but you have just thrown one of Her Majesty 's judges out of the train . ’ ’ |
| 4 | What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’ |
| 5 | The result is that , whereas , for the passive reader , the novel effectively ends with Oliveira seemingly about to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window , the active reader goes beyond this to the understanding that Oliveira 's jump into the void is a metaphorical leap into a metaphysical state , where conventional categories are abolished and dualistic contradictions reconciled . |