Example sentences of "[v-ing] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only point in eking out the conversation was the hope that she had seen something curious . |
| 2 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 3 | In the side panel of the door he found a street map of Oxford , together with a copy of Railway Magazine ; and opening out the map he traced the line of the River Cherwell , moving his right index-finger slowly northwards from the site marked Bathing Pool , up along the edge of the University Parks , then past Norham Gardens and Park Town , out under the Marston Ferry Road ; and then , veering north-westerly , up past the bottom of Lonsdale Road … |
| 4 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 5 | Her voice tailed off as , opening out the letter , he began to read . |
| 6 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 7 | Trim the fabric away inside the scallops , cutting close to the stitching line and notching out the seam allowance round the curves ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 8 | Not by cheating … but if it meant trimming the petals with a pair of scisasors ten minutes before walking out the hall and the judge wo n't notice it … |
| 9 | Henry Gunning , a Cambridge don in the eighteenth century , tells of a college fellow who " had Horace at his fingertips " — quite literally , for he committed the Odes to memory by taking the volume to the privy , getting a poem by heart , then tearing out the page for hygienic uses . |
| 10 | and he said no , someone 's going round nicking out the sheds and Nick said I know who he is , I thought |
| 11 | If you find this comfortable , then it 's a great benefit for keeping out the spindrift when winter climbing . |
| 12 | In fact Labour governments ( in 1965 and 68 ) have been at pains to prove that they are just as good at keeping out the blacks as the Tories . |
| 13 | It was argued that the rule of having only Yorkshire-born players was the perfect way of keeping out the non-whites . |
| 14 | Keeping out the elements |
| 15 | But stretch it very tight like a drum , or it will not have the effect of keeping out the cold . |
| 16 | KEEPING OUT THE COLD |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a Brandy Mac , the best thing for keeping out the cold . |
| 18 | And he will be one of the players given the job of keeping out the twin threat of Frenchman Eric Cantona and Lee Chapman . |
| 19 | Mr Gordon appears to have been remarkably successful in keeping out the looters . |
| 20 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 21 | The bi-directional knitted wool on the cuffs and waistband resist stretching and pilling , while keeping out the wind . |
| 22 | Again , fleeces provide the most versatile mid-layer , though few of them are very effective at keeping out the wind . |
| 23 | Spelling out the dangers |
| 24 | Consider for example : ( 20 ) A : Let's get the kids something B : Okay , but I veto I-C-E C-R-E-A-M-S where B ostentatiously infringes the maxim of Manner ( be perspicuous ) by spelling out the word ice-creams , and thereby conveys to A that B would rather not have ice-cream mentioned directly in the presence of the children , in case they are thereby prompted to demand some . |
| 25 | The mountaineers are working by abseiling down the side of the building to attach vast metal letters spelling out the word ‘ Cornmill ’ . |
| 26 | The second reason for spelling out the approach is to highlight the limitations in current attempts to relate computational models to the actual operations of the visual system . |
| 27 | Dearden was , of course , joining the ranks of Professors Peters and Hirst in their misguided pursuit of spelling out the logic of education and overlooking its dynamics in doing so . |
| 28 | Chapter 3 of the Constitution on the Church , spelling out the doctrine of collegiality , was theologically and dogmatically at the very heart of Vatican II 's debate and contribution to Catholic self-understanding . |
| 29 | The French translation overcomes the problem by spelling out the interpretation : Nous attendimes en vain ( literally : ‘ we waited in vain ’ ) ; but loses the surprise element because it conforms to the given-plus-new pattern . |
| 30 | Draw up a ‘ contract ’ with your partner spelling out the limits of acceptable behaviour . |