Example sentences of "[v-ing] out [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ No , that one is the biggest ’ , picking out the tallest one . |
| 3 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 4 | We accept without a second 's thought that we can open our eyes and observe everything around us , picking out the slightest movement . |
| 5 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 6 | The identification of the farm worker with his fellow villagers was reinforced by this , and even local farmers , who also had an interest in securing skilled labour and ensuring that the farm ran as smoothly as possible , contributed to the process by seeking out the best workers according to their reputation in the locality . |
| 7 | The latter methods are used by every modern choreographer working with classical dance because it is more flexible and expressive and many dancers trained in its technique are capable of acting out the deepest emotions of the characters played , as Ashton and MacMillan have continually shown . |
| 8 | Whichever way you go , you 'll come across bar after bar all turning out the latest in pop videos and the odd cocktail or two ! |
| 9 | Far below , the tiniest candle-flame sending out the smallest light , flickering , subdued . |
| 10 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 11 | ‘ Well — there 's nothing like adversity — ‘ sweet are the uses of adversity ’ ’ — for bringing out the best in you . |
| 12 | Van Praagh became a close friend of the Cranko family , Herbert and Phyllis as well as John ; she proved a valuable ally , not only for her position within the company but also because she had a flair for bringing out the best qualities of young dancers and choreographers , and guiding them in their careers . |
| 13 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 14 | The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit . |
| 15 | I do n't think it 's condoning , I just think it 's given the safe , giving out the safest options for people who maybe taking drugs and , and and maybe in , in maybe er sometimes thinking about injecting drugs , and er I think we actually have to be very clear on this epidemic , that , that there is no , no way for , for lack of clarity , we have to go down the line . |
| 16 | That pompous skitch John Yeovil had just finished reading out the Best Dream nominations . |
| 17 | After that she reckoned that if she had n't moved on to somewhere bigger , she 'd probably be stuck here forever reading out the latest sheep prices at six o'clock every morning . |
| 18 | We recently had the opportunity of trying out the latest handheld transceiver in the ICOM range , the IC-A20 MkII . |
| 19 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 20 | Harden off cuttings of rooted pinks , planting out the strongest growing in the batch . |
| 21 | Or he can adopt a clinical approach , hitting out the best line from every tee to give the best angle onto the green , taking note of all the historical precedents and prudently heeding them . |
| 22 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 23 | Because of the difference between Asynchronous Transfer Mode and other technology introductions , AT&T is placing heavy emphasis on the Customer Advisory Council 's role , particularly in working out the best tariffing regime . |
| 24 | ‘ When you worked with Directors like Christopher Barry or Douglas Camfield , initially you 'd spend endless time in discussions , working out the best way to shoot a script . |
| 25 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 26 | ‘ Working out the best route . ’ |