Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [to-vb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps any attempt to sneak out would be a waste of time . |
| 2 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , but keep it under your chapeau ’ — Amaranth shuddered slightly ‘ that Carole and her crowd are having a little meeting early this evening to work out their tactics . |
| 4 | The NRA officer blocked the outlet to prevent any further pollution leaving the site , and Laleham 's called in a contractor later that day to clean out the surface water system . |
| 5 | Many people these days have a busy lifestyle and although they may enjoy gardening there is often little time to carry out many of the day-to-day tasks needed to keep a plot in perfect order . |
| 6 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 7 | The board that held the keys in the porter 's charge hung just within the doorway , and she had sharp enough eyes to pick out the nail that was empty , and the fellow to the absent key close beside it . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's no secret we are interested , ’ said Keegan , who flew to Belgium earlier this month to check out the £500,000-rated Ghent goalscorer . |
| 9 | Drake and Jewsbury have already tried out the copper-impregnated glass in Zambia , and plan to return there this year to carry out large-scale trials in village ponds and streams . |
| 10 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 11 | ONE OF the last of a now all but extinct breed , Johnny Martin bowled unorthodox slow left-arm in eight Tests for Australia during the 1960s , and was , when his aggressive batting was taken into account , as great an entertainment package as almost any cricketer to come out of NSW . |
| 12 | Most of the Vietnamese in Hong Kong arrive in tiny boats with barely enough space to stretch out while sleeping on the decks . |
| 13 | It does not take too much thought to work out who would be held mainly to blame , with today 's mass unemployment figures and with so much poverty around , does it ? |
| 14 | As to the leading reasons why they did not recycle , 37 per cent blamed a lack of collection points ; 25 per cent said they did not have enough space to store materials awaiting recycling ; 10 per cent found it too much trouble to separate out different categories of waste ; and 8 per cent cited shortage of time . |
| 15 | It was too much trouble to spell out the sub-titles . |