Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cried a lot coming out of my teens , ’ says Charlotte , now 22 , ‘ because I realised that I no longer had an excuse to play out the role of mother 's beloved charge . |
| 2 | As an experience to blot out the horror of her discovery on Brynteg it had been blissfully successful . |
| 3 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 4 | It took an hour to sort out the jumble of thoughts . |
| 5 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 6 | Most nurses are first thrown into these situations at around eighteen years of age , before they have an opportunity to sort out the demands of their own emotional lives . |
| 7 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 8 | The death of Stalin early in 1953 was promptly seized upon by Churchill as an opportunity to test out the thinking of the new Soviet leadership . |
| 9 | 13 May — A Movement Accompaniment Day run by and , which will also include an opportunity to try out the machines in the Fitness Centre . |
| 10 | The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire . |
| 11 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 12 | He decided to repeat the heating exercise in an attempt to force out the energy from the graphite . |
| 13 | Temporarily withdrawing in an attempt to draw out the IRA , they returned to occupy the area for a further 36 hours ( Farrell , 1980:273 ) . |
| 14 | To calculate the endurance factor , lines were drawn on the CAA half million map in an attempt to straighten out the coastline . |