Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] out [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combat gear should stay out of clubs and back on squaddies and serial killers |
| 2 | The 1919 Murray 's Handbook asked in a revealing suggestion that travellers should watch out for instances when third-class passengers were not treated considerately and should report them to the management . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead , we should keep out of things and allow the experts to get on with running The Arts Centre . |
| 4 | This is a distortion of historical truth , and the student of history must look out for clues which reveal its unreliability . |
| 5 | Those who feel able to give a certain amount of care should sort out with doctors and social workers the conditions on which they feel able to offer it , and the extent of care they can give , before they accept responsibility . |
| 6 | And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity . |
| 7 | He issued an order that all the able-bodied men in the garrison should turn out with shovels during the rare intervals between the downpours . |
| 8 | ‘ We should turn out in droves , all of us , and place our cross against the name of the person in whichever party will care more for the people , ’ said Mr Harper . |
| 9 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 10 | Now he 'll look out for restaurants we can both go to , ’ she explains . |
| 11 | Oh he 'll get hold of a hedgehog and shake it and with that he 'll come out with prickles all on the end |
| 12 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 13 | When I thought I 'd run out of things to say I asked the front two rows to move back and the whole place started buzzing . |
| 14 | At 17.23 I was sitting in Jake 'n' Suzi 's Unisex Salon , a tiny place that looked as though cockroaches 'd run out of corners and over your toes . |
| 15 | I wanted a light for my fag — I 'd run out of matches — so I opened the door of the box and just asked Charlie for a light . |
| 16 | Mary Deare was still there after the curtain had risen on Act Four , and frantic because she 'd run out of matches . |
| 17 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 18 | Somehow , asking the Thing for help was like admitting that you 'd run out of ideas . |
| 19 | He 'd run out of cautions . |
| 20 | Fidel Ramos , a former army chief and now defence secretary , could point out to voters that he had loyally defended the president in the numerous coup attempts against her . |
| 21 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 22 | they 'd come out with half of one , they 'd come out with things like I think you 're er I du n no er , not barking up the wrong tree that was the wrong one , but the they 'd sort of come out with half of a pun and they would n't finish it off , like oh th , this is smashing ! |
| 23 | With , against him , not only the new laws — on the grounds that they could well still be fully operative — but his 37 years , Probyn may miss out on Lions ' selection . |
| 24 | In the summer , washday may happen out of doors , and can stimulate lots of talk and valuable practical experience as children add soap to the water , wash the clothes ( taking care that water does n't flood over the sides of the bowl ) , wring the clothes and peg them out on a line . |
| 25 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 26 | The question during Mr Baker 's recent tour was whether Israel 's Yitzhak Shamir or Syria 's Hafez Assad would run out of excuses first . |
| 27 | At present usage I would run out of batteries before the half-way point and Mick and Paddy would run out just after . |
| 28 | The government said that fuel supplies would only last a few weeks , but that meat and butter would run out within days . |
| 29 | And I did so : the Ancient Mariner but without his enthusiasm , knowing that my story would spread out in waves , carried by travellers inside and outside South America . |
| 30 | And that would also give us office space which would give us a headquarters for a recycling education group , which would go out to schools , to councils , to Brownie groups , to anybody who might be interested in recycling , what they can do , how they can it better . |