Example sentences of "[verb] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw . |
| 2 | The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To pinch out the quick |
| 10 | And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Edward Hall , the director of the laboratory , says that archaeologists are keen to try out the new system . |
| 14 | Pupils are helped to work out the rules and patterns for themselves and to try out the new language forms . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 20 | In 1987 she advertised for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to try out the three-week diet and fill in questionnaires . |
| 21 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |
| 22 | Recommendations were made that would eventually phase out the broad gauge . |
| 23 | She did n't have any idea of the way you eased into queries of this sort , and to have a jukebox banging out the Rolling Stones would not provide the right background . |
| 24 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
| 25 | ‘ The chairman of Rothman 's , Lord Swaythling , recently wrote to me , spelling out the particular risk to Rothman 's workforce in the North-East . ’ |
| 26 | The question is whether something approaching a Bill of Rights for students would not be worthwhile , spelling out the academic freedoms which all students have the right to expect . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Radioactivity helped the solar wind to sift out the dense iron-nickel from the silicates , and was the main energy source in turning the inner cores of planets molten . |
| 29 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 30 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |