Example sentences of "[verb] out [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So what thoughts will be going through your mind when you send out the last Grand National runner ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Spring is here and our make-over feature is back , offering readers the chance to try out a glamorous new look . |
| 5 | Shoppers crowded into St Mary 's Hall , Stooperdale Avenue , Cockerton , to try out the innovative donate-and-buy scheme organised by Sue Sadler , Sue Finn and Carol Smith founder members of local charity Christian Personal Care ( CPC ) . |
| 6 | Because of the range of the respective sizes of each range and the feel of the marker pens themselves , I chose to try out the KC-1100 Twin Point Pens in a studio context and the KC-400 Brush Pens in the field . |
| 7 | When Newcastle recovered from the effect of the goal , they again made chances with man of the match , keeper Lee Butler , keeping out a point-blank Sheedy header and Clark twice going close . |
| 8 | He reached into his inside jacket pocket , drew out a fine black leather wallet , flicked it open and with his long tanned fingers slid out a printed business card . |
| 9 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 10 | The bus driver drew out a Saturday-night special and shot the travelling salesman . |
| 11 | Dipping her two hands in the neck of Cissie 's night-shift , Beth drew out the long brown locks , spreading them over the collar and fanning the hair out as it was not altogether dry . |
| 12 | He drew out an enormous red spotted handkerchief from a capacious pocket somewhere and mopped his eye . |
| 13 | He picked up the mail and messages on his desk and at once sorted out a small brown envelope addressed ‘ R. Bell Esqre . ’ |
| 14 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 15 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |
| 16 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 17 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 18 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 19 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 20 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 21 | But they also tried out a few Western favourites such as a meal at McDonalds , a fish and chip supper , and a performance of Cats . |
| 22 | Those who relish the challenge of something different should seek out the striking Egyptian star ( Pentas lanceolata ) or its temperamental relative , flame of the woods ( Ixora coccinea ) . |
| 23 | Again , the trick is to work out the net marginal revenue at the required level of activity and charge a transfer price equal to that . |
| 24 | It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks . |
| 25 | Clytemnestra let out an unearthly keening howl , her lips snarling back and her tail a stiff prolongation of her backbone . |
| 26 | This , and the presence in the manuscript of works by Dufay , Josquin , and Flemish-school compositions of the late fifteenth century , bears out a discernible continental influence on Carver 's style ; he may even have studied at Louvain . |
| 27 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |
| 28 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 29 | We have seen that it is sometimes possible to sort out the observed vibrational bands according to their symmetry , and that group frequency and similar empirical arguments may make it reasonable to associate bands with particular vibrational modes . |
| 30 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |