Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bean was opening out bales of straw making deep beds . |
| 2 | Probably in an old photo of Lennon banging out barre-chords in some dive off the Reeperbahn . |
| 3 | Old Ramsbum 's not up to keeping out gangs of terrorists . ’ |
| 4 | We communicated through 18-year-old Lisa , who passed on my questions by spelling out words on Julia 's hand . |
| 5 | It is wiser to undertake this systematically by booking out copies of the originals from LIFESPAN and then reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 6 | Second , the law is gender-specific , singling out women for more lenient treatment . |
| 7 | The Government have often been accused of singling out students for special treatment under the rules . |
| 8 | The group is singling out stores in terms of product mix . |
| 9 | Prejudice aside for one brief moment , the Republic have shown the best form in the group so far , and if there was even the merest scintilla of justice in this doomed planet , they would now be checking out copies of In Stockholm magazine with a view to disporting themselves in the most agreeable Nite Spots that the Swedish capital has to offer . |
| 10 | This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system . |
| 11 | Film producers have ignored this fact and have made films in which masters jump ten feet in the air , thrashing out kicks in all directions . |
| 12 | By taking into account the adequacy of the research designs , ruling out findings from small samples , weak measures and poor statistical analysis , Kessler and McLeod ( 1984 ) revealed a considerable amount of agreement about the positive effects of support . |
| 13 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 14 | A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not . |
| 15 | In February , the greysuited banker paid Shell ‘ several millions ’ for the object of his affections : Price 's Patent Candle Company , Britain 's oldest candle manufacturer , which has been knocking out candles at its Victorian factory in Wandsworth , south London , since 1831 . |
| 16 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |
| 17 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 18 | Just spilling out memories of Pa right back to her childhood eased away some of the pain and she was able to relax a little . |
| 19 | Her eyes were too busy picking out faces amongst the other passengers . |
| 20 | However , there are other ways , as well , of picking out differences between human activities and those of other animals . |
| 21 | Contingent benefits have the advantage of picking out groups in society that are in greater need of income and/or in-kind support than other groups . |
| 22 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 23 | Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing . |
| 24 | The embroidery was perfect , picking out colours of blazing simplicity . |
| 25 | It 's rather like what we talked about right at the beginning we talked about picking out features from our image such as the the width the height er the grey area or whatever of the image . |
| 26 | Not only does he collect the ball well when under attack , he also distributes it magnificently on occasions , picking out midfielders with great accuracy , sometimes over 20–30 yards . |
| 27 | Girls seem to have worked mainly at the surface picking out stones from the coal . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been bashing out plans for care management and for better discharge procedures , and on paper we can offer community care very well , ’ said Jim Walker , acting director of Bassetlaw trust 's mental health services . |
| 29 | The 168 children out of 2,339 received into London workhouses between 1750 and 1755 who survived hardly over-exercised the parish authorities in seeking out apprenticeships on their behalf . |
| 30 | Such is the delight that people take in seeking out follies at weekends that the Fellowship has quickly gathered momentum . |