Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 2 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 3 | Every now and then he lifted a finger off the wheel and pointed out some famous bridge or statue or museum . |
| 4 | For instance , The Health and Safety at Work Act ( 1974 ) and its associated regulations , impose duties on persons who design , manufacture , import or supply articles for use at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that they are safe , and to test them , provide proper information , carry out research with a view to the elimination of risks and to carry out other duties . |
| 5 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 6 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 7 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 8 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 9 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |
| 10 | In the previous subsection I distinguished invention from learning by stressing the extent to which the former involves internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems . |
| 11 | And he boxed both my ears and stalked out . |
| 12 | And he boxed both my ears and stalked out . |
| 13 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 14 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 15 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 16 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 17 | Having found out how much money the client has to spend , the producer must study the creative team 's script and storyboard and work out whether it can be made for the money available . |
| 18 | Take a card and try out everything that you can think of doing while it is inserted into the machine . |
| 19 | A player landing on a Point Of Order square must decide whether they want an Aye or No before picking a card and carrying out the instructions on the card ( for example — ‘ David Owen backs you , lose 50 votes ’ ) . |
| 20 | However , it can be used if you can ‘ read ’ your card and work out the maximum number of tucks or loops you will be collecting . |
| 21 | The members turn down the deal and vote out all 12 directors . |
| 22 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |
| 23 | The creation of executive agencies in the Civil Service , competitive tendering and contracting out , the establishment of trading agencies by health and local authorities , " opted out " hospitals and schools , all create new grey areas in addition to the forms of " quango " which already exist . |
| 24 | Remove any debris from the garden pond and thin out plants showing signs of excessive growth . |
| 25 | The trust is preparing to launch its two-year appeal to pay off land purchase loans , improve road access for the disabled , provide parking , toilets and a wildlife pond and carry out site clearance . |
| 26 | We live in little beach chalets and look out all day on the Mediterranean ; its blueness always surprises me , though I 've seen it so often . |
| 27 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 28 | Spectators , wandering along the pony lines , were amused to watch Fantasma , who 'd been muzzled to stop her savaging anyone , standing on her two front legs and lashing out with both back ones . |
| 29 | On retiring to bed Vic 's last action is normally to detach a book from Marjorie 's nerveless fingers , tuck her arms under the covers and turn out her bedside lamp , but he must have neglected the first of these chores last night , or perhaps Enjoy Your Menopause was concealed under the coverlet . |
| 30 | Patrick threw back the covers and hopped out of bed . |