Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 2 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 3 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 4 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 5 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 6 | A HEADMASTER has called on schools to join forces in a bid to stamp out the menace of solvent abuse in the North-East . |
| 7 | Officials could increase next season 's four-month qualification period for players changing clubs to one season in a bid to stamp out the scandal . |
| 8 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 9 | You can soak off old glue in water , but you may have to chisel or sand away modern adhesives and you 'll have to use a chisel to clean out the mortise . |
| 10 | Victims and health authorities agree that services are n't being properly coordinated , but one authority has promised to try to find a consultant to sort out the problem . |
| 11 | We have to stop here for a moment to sort out the coordinates . |
| 12 | Your Lordships are motivated by a desire to carry out the intentions of Parliament in enacting legislation and have no intention or desire to question the processes by which such legislation was enacted or of criticising anything said by anyone in Parliament in the course of enacting it . |
| 13 | Try drinking lots of water instead : not eating at all for a day to clear out the system ( unless you are a diabetic or have some other dietary problem ) ; having a warm bath and a nap ; going for a long walk . |
| 14 | They need 14 hours of light a day to bring out the flowers . |
| 15 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 16 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 17 | This gave me a chance to check out the spectator balconies which overhang the two long sides of the water . |
| 18 | Speaking of which , when one such status symbol ran dry here the other day , a child was lowered into a pit to clean out the drains , so the nineteenth-century tradition of infant chimney-sweeps is alive and well and living in Tuscany . |
| 19 | But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’ |
| 20 | Unscrew the end cap and use a screwdriver to lever out the piston assembly . |
| 21 | The first drafts of the play are concerned to set the pattern of action and feeling rather than with the exploration of individual characters — this formalistic approach to his task was demonstrated in the preparation of a later drama , when he used a blackboard to set out the play and used symbols to denote his characters . |
| 22 | Then followed a mad rush out to the instruments , a frantic look at the sky and the visibility , a quick scribbling on a pad to write out the message , and a scramble into the teleprinter room to tap it out . |
| 23 | Creating a border to see out the summer |
| 24 | ‘ Two coffees , then , ’ Anthony said in German , trying a grin to rinse out the sounds in his mouth . |
| 25 | Lendoiro secured a loan to wipe out the club 's debts and give the club some clout in the transfer market . |
| 26 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 27 | Whilst certainly they may receive something in return , there does not seem to be a pressure to balance out the gifts . |
| 28 | When they begin to simmer , turn yellow , and to plump , throw them into a cullender to drain out the water , and with the back of a spoon carefully squeeze the pulp through a sieve into a dish . |
| 29 | Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant . |
| 30 | But those who take them there have a duty to spell out the risks . |