Example sentences of "[to-vb] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 2 | De Lorenzo 's move follows a decision by his Liberal party to retract earlier threats to pull out of government unless Amato gave him public support . |
| 3 | CONSUMER confidence and spending were improving ahead of the decision by John Major to call an election , suggesting that the economy might have started to pull out of recession but for worries about the election outcome . |
| 4 | The economy will begin to pull out of recession in the second quarter . |
| 5 | Lynn Reaser , the chief economist at First Interstate , expects northern and central California to pull out of recession later this year , but southern California to lag behind . |
| 6 | Yesterday he was offered the chance to pull out of part of it and go home because of his domestic troubles . |
| 7 | ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition . |
| 8 | ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition . |
| 9 | It also made a £26 million exceptional write-off , after its decision to pull out of property development and concentrate on running the portfolio . |
| 10 | ‘ If we can force them to pull out through lack of money then that is their excuse , but we do n't care as long as they go somewhere else . ’ |
| 11 | Pods can also warp , allowing the batteries to slip out of contact , and the contacts themselves are often quite small . |
| 12 | When his mother died it was as though his youth began to slip out of sight . |
| 13 | Although one of the earliest questions put to him in England concerned this category of ‘ the West ’ , in the subsequent fervour that accompanied the transformation of Derrida 's work into the method of deconstruction , this problem tended to slip out of view . |
| 14 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 15 | You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty . |
| 16 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |
| 17 | He nods morosely , as if he always knew I would leave him , and he tries to impress on me that I have to disappear out of sight . |
| 18 | The munitions workers are not forgotten , including Joan Williams who wrote of her new job : ‘ It was nothing to leap out of bed at 5.15 on a frosty morning and I almost danced down Queen 's Road under the stars , at the prospect of the day 's work before me . ’ |
| 19 | lot of water which is going to come out as steam . |
| 20 | He had to come out with diabetes and all , he 's a pension . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very big figure to come out with right at the death and probably did n't impress the institutions , ’ he added . |
| 22 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 23 | They should have somebody to come out at night really |
| 24 | Their father may know that if he simply ‘ refuses to intervene ’ the older one , stronger and more resourceful , is bound to come out on top … |
| 25 | It was the prison , of course , which was to come out on top . |
| 26 | However did people manage to discipline themselves and stick to a single line for long enough to gain control , to come out on top , to become the boss instead of the employee ? |
| 27 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 28 | I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds ! ’ |
| 29 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 30 | Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay . |