Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 4 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 5 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 6 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 8 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 9 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 11 | Although naturally designed more to draw out signs of abnormality , they nevertheless demand similar mental operations , being open-ended procedures in which , for example , subjects are required to interpret proverbs or sort everyday objects in any way they prefer . |
| 12 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 13 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 14 | I propose simply to map out broad characteristics , though the analytical language of contrast tends to suggest categorical qualities which are unintended . |
| 15 | The walls seem to meet overhead to block out the sky and a chill wind blows as we approach the impasse at the head of the gully . |
| 16 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 17 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 18 | He has the size to make a chaser but has yet to fill out . |
| 19 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 20 | With the experience of the Contagious Diseases Acts in mind , Ellice Hopkins tartly remarked there were ‘ one or two things which the medical profession has yet to grow out of under the influence of an enlightened public opinion ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 22 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 23 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 24 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 25 | I 'd never be so desperate for you , Travis McKenna , that I 'd stoop so low ! ’ she cried and pushed herself to her feet , wanting only to get out of there . |
| 26 | Pausing only to straighten out the stripes on his drip-dry polyester-mix Marks & Spencer executive shirt , Brian will respond with a jaunty , ‘ Proceed ! ’ |
| 27 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 28 | Use the five steps and chart below to work out a reasonable estimate of the cost of rebuilding your home . |
| 29 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 30 | For the time being , however , investors might do better to clear out their portfolios than to add to them . |