Example sentences of "[verb] out [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw .
2 We are moving towards a position where JAA will probably receive and settle invoices from each national authority and send out a single invoice to the applicant .
3 Send out an initial press notice .
4 The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) .
5 When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them .
6 Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus .
7 C … an ex-sharedealer of Harvard Securities , was living in a barn on a friend 's farm in Kent , eking out a gipsy-like living by renovating rusty old cars .
8 This is a direct parallel with conservation programmes that concentrate on small peasant farmers and those marginal semi-proletariat which find themselves eking out a living charcoal-burning , cultivating the steepest slopes , or in shifting cultivation without sufficient fallow-periods — an issue which is explored in detail in Chapter 7 .
9 On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half .
10 Are you really going to let her wait , eking out a miserable existence , just because of some misplaced notions of pride ? ’
11 He had spent his time in a lodging house on the Strand , eking out the small amount of money Edward Morris had been able to lend him .
12 Tasks includes tests of navigational and landing precision , eking out the maximum flight time from a measured splash of fuel and flying against the clock to photograph a series of check points .
13 From a liberal perspective , the subsequent history of the regime established in October bore out the ruthless , doctrinaire and fundamentally undemocratic nature of the Bolshevik party .
14 While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way .
15 To pinch out the quick
16 And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak .
17 Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person .
18 Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun !
19 We welcome the proposal to try out a new Campaigns Unit for one year , but would stress :
20 Could that be a good idea , say for , to try out a vocational area ?
21 Other resorts are dedicated to the more experienced sailors , with strong winds and unrivalled opportunities to try out a wide range of quality boards and sails .
22 Spring is here and our make-over feature is back , offering readers the chance to try out a glamorous new look .
23 The black-eyebrowed albatross was a frequent visitor to the Parsee , and gave Gould the chance to try out a crude but innovative experiment — one of the first attempts to tag and monitor a live sea bird .
24 After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets .
25 Shoppers crowded into St Mary 's Hall , Stooperdale Avenue , Cockerton , to try out the innovative donate-and-buy scheme organised by Sue Sadler , Sue Finn and Carol Smith founder members of local charity Christian Personal Care ( CPC ) .
26 Edward Hall , the director of the laboratory , says that archaeologists are keen to try out the new system .
27 Pupils are helped to work out the rules and patterns for themselves and to try out the new language forms .
28 In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures .
29 It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration .
30 When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks .
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