Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] out " in BNC.

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1 The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it .
2 It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind .
3 In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil .
4 Where WinEdit stands out from the rest is for programmers who use Microsoft C and SDK .
5 The favour was reciprocated when Dire Straits were re-formed to play at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium , where Clapton helped out on guitar .
6 contrary to the accepted general rule a defendant is liable to his neighbour for the negligence of an independent contractor where work carried out between adjoining premises required particular care to ensure a waterproof joint was made .
7 Where persons set out deliberately to prevent others from conducting perfectly lawful business , they do the cause of freedom of speech a disservice .
8 Where faults die out laterally and are replaced by further offset faults an en echelon scarp can be formed ( Fig. 3.33(B) ) .
9 Seeing Saad laid out on the floor , dumb and silent .
10 Where people set out to defraud the revenue , there could be penalties .
11 He was flown by helicopter to the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel , east London , where surgeons ruled out emergency surgery after initial investigations .
12 ‘ We 've never known where Danny found out about it , but we 're sure he was just experimenting .
13 And where Carole lives out in Earlswood , down the lanes she lives round there as well .
14 For cheaper up-and-coming areas , she advises buyers to look around the Bastille and Le Valois Perret , where prices work out at £20-£40 a square metre — about £100,000 for a typical two-bedroom flat .
15 Double.length shifts are usually provided , where bits shifted out of one register of the double.length accumulator are shifted into the other .
16 But in fact there appears to be little a company chairman can do other than try to ride out the fashion of the moment .
17 The northern section of the colony was settled by people from Virginia rather than emigrants brought out by the proprietors , and the southern section by emigrants from Barbados as well as from England .
18 Meredith had told Markby she would rather like to attend Westerfield church on Christmas Day morning before going to Laura 's if he did n't mind , so Markby drove out from Bamford after breakfast to accompany her .
19 Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) .
20 Front-line troops were being used up quicker than units pulled out into reserve could recover ; moreover , they were demoralised by what had happened inside Douaumont .
21 When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car .
22 Although gamsabhavas died out after the imposition of British rule , headmen and other intermediaries often negotiated compromises .
23 Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God .
24 ‘ Quality of childcare and practicality are also important and although cash works out cheapest , it has a serious drawback in that the employer has no control over how the money is being used .
25 His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth .
26 Although rain ruled out any real chance of a positive result on the last day the Leewards batsmen never batted with enough urgency having established a first innings lead .
27 There were memories which , he suspected , would be even more insistent than Kerrison marking out with his cartilage knife on the milk-white body the long line of the primary incision .
28 Taste aversion learning could thus be an important part of the protection enjoyed by mimics , so Nicolaus set out to see whether it would protect eggs from crows , Some eggs were painted bright green and others were left untouched , to act as controls .
29 Although Adam pointed out that a profit was projected for the whole group , and that the group expansion had been phenomenal , Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old , less comfortable days — not so very long ago — when KITS had been her brilliant baby
30 By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear .
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