Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pers pn] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most callers at your home will be genuine , but some might be out to steal or cheat you out of your money . |
| 2 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 3 | At the Albert Hall Rally of the Left Book Club in February 1937 , " Mr Harry Pollitt said there was a new awakening among the middle classes and they had to rope these people in rather than keep them out . " |
| 4 | Once one is in the right frame of mind , it is a relatively easy exercise to play spot-the-sexism within curriculum materials ; indeed both teachers and pupils now use this serious game to highlight gender biases in their books and , rather than toss them out , make the best of distorted material to act as a starter for discussion . |
| 5 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 6 | Although alcohol is undoubtedly excreted in the urine and could theoretically act as an inflammatory agent in a case of urethritis , it is probably enough to reduce alcohol intake rather than cut it out altogether — there have been no convincing scientific trials to show that alcohol consumption delays resolution of urethritis . |
| 7 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 8 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 9 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 10 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 11 | I think it might be worthwhile actually so the school can come and bail us out ! |
| 12 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 13 | Will you please try and act it out like we did the Twelfth Night the bit with Mrs , and see whether you can revive your idea of why Johnson , what is the nature of , of Johnson 's comic art . |
| 14 | Now another one I 'm going to try and catch you out with . |
| 15 | As Roy said , ‘ How can you feel anything but deep affection for a man who has the humility and sincerity not to try and bluff it out ? ’ |
| 16 | If the secretary had come back early , and if she answered , Lucy had decided to go in and bluff it out . |
| 17 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 18 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 19 | I 'll go and pour it out and then I 'll . |
| 20 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 21 | Jinny was too tired to try and work it out . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing feels right and all I can do is try and work it out for myself . |
| 23 | Jack did n't stop to try and work it out . |
| 24 | I do n't fiddle my results really — usually it 's easier to make up excuses for it being wrong than to go through and work it out to make it come out right . |
| 25 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 27 | just so that we can try and work it out , so that you know if we are going to , to go to new theatres like , you know , I think the New Travellers is going to be interested |
| 28 | So , cos I do actually sit down and work it out , and me mum comes in and says , what you doing , , so I do use that way . |
| 29 | Do n't try and work it out any more . |
| 30 | No , so you had to sit and work it out . |