Example sentences of "out and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 2 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 3 | Of these , five were killed by coyotes , which catch ferrets in the open , and one was dug out and killed by a badger . |
| 4 | A plan of this sort can always be worked out and imposed on a situation , but it is unlikely to work smoothly . |
| 5 | The surrounding buildings were two-storeyed , the upper built out and supported by a series of arched cloisters which every evening were thick with alpaca jerseys , rugs , cheap jewellery , bargain hunters and cloying money-changers . |
| 6 | ‘ Safety can never be pulled out and examined as an issue in isolation from the project . |
| 7 | The freshly opened colon was pinned out and examined under a Leitz dissecting microscope by two independent observers . |
| 8 | If there is an existing fitting with a spare 50mm boss socket , this can be drilled out and fitted with a boss connector of the appropriate size . |
| 9 | All kinds of things can be used as reflectors : projection screens ; aluminium foil which has been crumpled , roughly straightened out and stuck onto a sheet of hardboard ; or purpose-made reflectors bought from photographic dealers . |
| 10 | of light and dark , measured out and wasted in a sieve . |
| 11 | nothing stops that race but the weather has put paid today to Gloucestershire 's big game … their match against Australia was washed out and abandoned in a draw … but the water has done us some good turns |
| 12 | ‘ We did not complete it because we would probably have faded out and died within a week . |
| 13 | Mrs Bennet showed him out and returned with a pint glass full of milk . |