Example sentences of "[vb base] out the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the float is holed , replace it ( it simply unscrews ) or , as a temporary measure , empty out the water , then tie a plastic bag around it to stop water getting back in .
2 A temporary solution is to enlarge the pinhole , empty out the water and tie a plastic bag over the ball .
3 Supposing that I could stand on the hills surrounding this Castle and send out the Samhailt , the ancient and precious gift bestowed on the Noble Houses of Ireland ?
4 Send out the Mindsong , ’ cried Grainne .
5 Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ?
6 Stick you head out the window and there 's puke going everywhere on the parked cars and people 's faces
7 Drill or channel out the wall plaster for rear cable entry
8 Drill or channel out the wall plaster for water pipe entry
9 Try to keep this exercise in your mind as you test out the necessity of your own adjectives .
10 Understandably they feel that it is such an intangible asset that it is more productive to go straight into the negotiating situation and test out the reality of bargaining power .
11 In short , theory can help practitioners to adopt a theoretical orientation to their task , whereby they seek to refer the particular techniques they use to more general principles , and , reciprocally , test out the validity of such principles against the observed actualities of classroom practice .
12 I throw what 's left down the sink and swill out the flask .
13 Strain off the surplus fat and swill out the pan with the wine and stock .
14 So the results that we expect out the job .
15 Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release .
16 wro , right then , eight o'clock , eight thirty , that 's half an hour in n it , er we 'll have to turn it off then , er leave out the news and then put Casualty that 's half an hour , that 's an hour yeah , we 'll have to knock out , just knock out the news because otherwise you 've got
17 " Take either currants , mulberries , raspberries or strawberries , sprinkle them with a little rose-water ; press out the juice , and draw the milk out of the cow 's udder into it ; sweeten it with a little sugar , and beat it well with birchen twigs , till it froth up ; then strew over it a little fine beaten cinamon , and it will be an excellent mess .
18 Seek out sources of advice : Having confirmed your pregnancy with your GP raise the issue and sense out the response .
19 Prune out the stem and take it into the shed where you can sit down comfortably to prepare the cuttings — they will have to be made very carefully , and you will need a very sharp knife .
20 a kind of cabaret — lick out the jam
21 The French only ever tap out the downbeat , and indicate the others by various movements of the hand to right and left .
22 Tap out the rhythm of other verses you know .
23 Still , it is an election year and the nominally apolitical Fed is expected to rally round the incumbent president and dole out the credit with a liberal hand .
24 Enter receipts , work out VAT , deduct from our own books and dole out the money .
25 Pinch out the middle of the plant in July .
26 Pinch out the tip of the main shoot when 8–12in tall to promote the formation of side shoots .
27 The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " .
28 Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface .
29 if you spread out the sun .
30 Spread out the mud and water in a shallow dish , and examine it .
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