Example sentences of "[v-ing] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw . |
| 2 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 3 | One participant reported half empty rooms in sessions dealing with the ‘ new art history ’ of semiotics , gender , and dialogue , and unexpected demand for more traditional object-related sessions , crowding out the smaller rooms in which they were scheduled . |
| 4 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 5 | He had spent his time in a lodging house on the Strand , eking out the small amount of money Edward Morris had been able to lend him . |
| 6 | Tasks includes tests of navigational and landing precision , eking out the maximum flight time from a measured splash of fuel and flying against the clock to photograph a series of check points . |
| 7 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 8 | She did n't have any idea of the way you eased into queries of this sort , and to have a jukebox banging out the Rolling Stones would not provide the right background . |
| 9 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
| 10 | ‘ The chairman of Rothman 's , Lord Swaythling , recently wrote to me , spelling out the particular risk to Rothman 's workforce in the North-East . ’ |
| 11 | The question is whether something approaching a Bill of Rights for students would not be worthwhile , spelling out the academic freedoms which all students have the right to expect . |
| 12 | Thereafter , re-modularisation can take place systematically , by booking out the necessary modules and reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 13 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 14 | The European Environment Commissioner is not singling out the British , even though the Minister and other senior Ministers seek to attack this honourable Commissioner . |
| 15 | They spend seven to ten days in a particular area , seeing bands , checking out the local press and radio stations , getting contacts for future reference . |
| 16 | PUNK ROCK has already become horribly stymied , yet bands like Magazine and The Banshees are checking out the fresher , stranger places to take the music . |
| 17 | In the geographical section of the unpublished Essay of 1844 outlining his theory of evolution , he assumed that , at a time of generally colder climate , the arctic plants would spread southwards , driving out the temperate species that were no longer adapted to the conditions . |
| 18 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 19 | Robyn climbed into the jeep , picked up her handbag from the passenger seat and tipped it upside-down , emptying out the disgraceful collection of junk into her lap . |
| 20 | Nothing wrong with this ; alcohol is a neurodepressant , knocking out the complex brain circuits involved in civilizing behaviour — the obedience to convention , the shyness , the fear of rejection . |
| 21 | Having grown up via the personality cult-littered path of doom rock , with Mission and Sisters Of Mercy fixations amongst the skeletons in their closet , the Messiah pair have no intention of accepting a fate as an anonymous disco duo , knocking out the odd hit . |
| 22 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 23 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 24 | Serbian fighters poised in the hills to the south and east of Sarajevo loosed a fresh mortar and machinegun attack on the city early yesterday , briefly knocking out the main television transmitter , forcing Sarajevo Television to switch to emergency power . |
| 25 | BILLY HARDY retained the British bantamweight title against Brian Holmes in Sunderland last night , knocking out the Scottish challenger with an explosive assault in the first round . |
| 26 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 27 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 28 | Last century , most materials for the chemicals industry were derived from coal tar , made by heating coal to high temperatures in the absence of air and distilling out the volatile products . |
| 29 | She had rescued the capercailzie , a black-backed gull and a pair of redstarts ; Mr Hellyer only a case of passerine birds which broke when he dumped it down too roughly on the path , spilling out the small , dry inhabitants into the larger air they had once so intimately known . |
| 30 | Saturday 's goal was the product of some poor defending by Celtic and the alertness of Mason in picking out the ginger nut of Alex McLeish , but , again , they relied on a defender to score . |