Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on . |
| 2 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 3 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 4 | His most spectacular success came in the AJC PLate , where he handed out a ten-length beating to his Melbourne Cup conqueror Nightmarch . |
| 5 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 6 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 7 | I had my trumpet case on my knee and half a carriage to myself , so I pulled out a paperback of Gore Vidal 's latest Essays and read the one where he thinks he gets confused with Anthony Burgess . |
| 8 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 9 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |
| 10 | Although she started out a creature of Parisian tastes in the sixties , by the seventies she had turned towards Iranian fabrics and designs ; where she went her court and may others followed . |
| 11 | Susan was thrown out of her chair and , although she put out an arm to break the fall , landed heavily on a floor . |
| 12 | The family recorded an anxious moment during the visit when the King lifted five-year-old Catherine Drummond in his arms and put her ‘ upon the Table which so much alarmed her that she burst out a crying . ’ |
| 13 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 14 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 15 | You do n't want that to happen , so you take out an inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend might be interested to know that we sent out a questionnaire to 5,293 people who volunteered for redundancy and 76 per cent . |
| 17 | It suggests we input resources so that we get out a functioning professional . |
| 18 | So many of you wanted one that we rushed out an extra 403,000 . |
| 19 | That we try out a petition throughout all the centre 's in the town . |
| 20 | Erm it 's quite important that we give out a very professional . |
| 21 | Some had national flags flying from their rucksacks so we hung out a tiny Scottish Saltire . |
| 22 | And it came to pass in those days , that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . |
| 23 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 24 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 25 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |
| 26 | Roebuck was very interested in Watt 's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it . |
| 27 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |
| 28 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |
| 29 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 30 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |