Example sentences of "[to-vb] out [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , trade in African ivory worth millions of dollars is allowed by CITES , under a system of quotas , with tusk markings and shipment papers designed to catch out sales of poached tusks . |
| 2 | The extremists ' behaviour helps Mr Yeltsin because it convinces voters who do not much like him that they have to vote for the president in order to keep out people like Messrs Baburin and Isakov . |
| 3 | Kenneth Grant , defending , at Wirral magistrates ' court said Philip Cornthwaite , 30 , of Larch Road , Tranmere , was mortified to hear one of the sisters had to pay out £300 for treatment to teeth damaged in the assault . |
| 4 | The respectable rowdies had set about their business with gleeful shouts of ‘ Now , boys , for a jolly spree ! ’ and ‘ Go it , boys , go it ! ’ doing damage amounting to £300 and causing the proprietor of Cremorne to pay out £500 in prosecuting the case . |
| 5 | SUCCESSORS to one-arm bandits , fruit machines have to pay out 70p for each £1 slotted in . |
| 6 | If there is an intrinsic conflict between capital and labour leading management to seek out means of exercising tight control over workers through fragmenting and de-skilling jobs , then this will have implications for the way in which whole enterprises are organised . |
| 7 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 8 | Shiraz has stitched up major deals all over the world to boost sales , but it appears that UK buyers are very reluctant to splash out £13 for 30 capsules in the middle of a slump . |
| 9 | Jason Pierce has a rotten throat infection and has been forced to lay out $70 on antibiotics , drummer Jon Mattock has spent half an hour going round the college with a marker pen , adding Spiritualized 's name to the day-glo posters . |