Example sentences of "[vb past] out by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 2 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 3 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 4 | While Mexico 's political weakness was excused and its economy helped out by the US , Brazil 's relationship with Washington steadily deteriorated and its policies came under American attack . |
| 5 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 6 | Research has markedly redressed the unfounded and ill-wishing treatment of it dished out by the zealots seeking to bring about the hardened approach to poverty eventually enacted in the harsh workhouse-based act of 1834 . |
| 7 | The agenda spelt out by the Treaty on European Union would lead to the eventual transformation of the Community into a single unitary state . |
| 8 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the message spelt out by the ideological right in the United States is rejected by the ideological right in Britain . |
| 10 | And with the advent of television , the cinema chains virtually abandoned the B-movies overnight ; it was shattering for the younger actors and writers who cut their teeth on the second-string movies churned out by the studios . |
| 11 | His music is the kind of accessible and easy listening fare churned out by the likes of Michael Bolton and Lionel Richie , who have both shifted considerable numbers of discs in European markets . |
| 12 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 13 | Came out by the same Door as in I went |
| 14 | I thought we 're gon na so we came out of Paul 's place , behind Belmont Parade , up past the ponds there and that 's and I 'm knackered , I 'm going up river , had no you start at the bottom of Belmont Parade , up those ponds up to the traffic lights where you change buses , that 's all up hill and it 's slow , and you 've just started and you 're not warm and it 's like running out of here , running up that hill there , now you could run up that hill if you got , if you had sort of round a couple of times round nice , no one so more ready to go , you 'd run up there , you come out of here , run down here , not warm , feel you get , well I come out of there and , and you get , you go up past that set of traffic lights , you go up and you 're still struggling past The Bull , that 's still up hill , you get to the , just round that bend and it starts dropping down , and it 's a gradual drop down , below the roundabout and the next roundabout 's pretty level there , not too bad a roundabout , right the way across to Scades Hill , went down Scades Hill , right the way down to Alton , bottom of Alton high street , came out by the toilets at White Hart to High Street , up to house . |
| 15 | But the economically less powerful sections of the middle class became increasingly outspoken , exploiting to the full the limited opportunities for organization and public debate opened out by the great reforms . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , Emma 's no slouch in the looks department , as you know , but this Cindy of yours is like — well , like something turned out by a machine . |
| 17 | Each valve or combination of valves , therefore , produces not a single note but a whole series of possible notes , the one required at any moment being selected and coaxed out by the player , who must therefore ‘ feel ’ the required note before he actually produces it . |
| 18 | With all sense of distance blotted out by the night , their car slapped over the deserted tarmac . |
| 19 | Strangely , the sun also shone , though it turned a dusty red , blotted out by the dark wings of vultures . |
| 20 | Mrs Barrantes claimed the question of custody prompted a royal plot — acted out by the British secret service — to shame her daughter . |
| 21 | His talk about not wanting her had been nonsense , stuff handed out by a man salvaging a bruised ego . |
| 22 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 23 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 24 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 25 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 26 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 27 | Unable to pay the ten shillings fine placed against him — a trifling sum , of course , compared with that paid out by the Cremorne merry-makers after their destructive binge — Alfred Berry was sentenced to seven days in the House of Correction . |
| 28 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 29 | When the level of carbon dioxide breathed out by the bees gets high in some part of the nest , groups of several hundred workers start vigorously fanning with their wings , so circulating the air around the combs and levelling out any imbalances . |
| 30 | But a very tiny proportion will germinate , either because they are washed from the tree by rain , brushed out by the actions of wild creatures or even because they have not been fertilised . |