Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] out the " in BNC.

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1 The directors could apprentice or hire out the children and other inmates , and the industrious poor could be rewarded out of any profits from their work , although no part of the money could be spent on liquor .
2 Warner v. Browne ( 1807 ) 8 East 165 there was an agreement to lease at a rent of £40 per annum and it was agreed that the landlord , W. Warner , should not raise the rent nor turn out the tenant ‘ so long as the rent is duly paid quarterly , and he does not expose to sale or sell any article that may be injurious to W. Warner in his business . ’
3 A player landing on a Point Of Order square must decide whether they want an Aye or No before picking a card and carrying out the instructions on the card ( for example — ‘ David Owen backs you , lose 50 votes ’ ) .
4 However , it can be used if you can ‘ read ’ your card and work out the maximum number of tucks or loops you will be collecting .
5 Instead of pulling over onto the hard shoulder , opening the car bonnet and putting more oil in the engine , you take a hammer and bash out the oil warning light .
6 I stagger to the bedroom and pull out the cover from beneath him .
7 If possible , turn off the power at the switch and pull out the plug .
8 Still , it is an election year and the nominally apolitical Fed is expected to rally round the incumbent president and dole out the credit with a liberal hand .
9 The NP would retain its earlier proposals for a transitional government with a two-chamber parliament [ see p. 38798 ] , but would propose an executive council to replace the state president and carry out the functions of the head of state and head of government .
10 ‘ We 're hoping to get some sort of fail-safe mechanism written in so we can take control of the club and sort out the legal matters after that , ’ he said .
11 General practitioners are well placed to diagnose effusion and carry out the necessary surveillance .
12 Menzies struggled to stop the racing of his mind and sort out the options coolly .
13 Apart from deep psychiatry and hypnosis which can sometimes disclose these events and thus heal them , the only way to overcome these fears is to expand the adult part of our mind and tune out the child and the parent as much as we can .
14 The pellet went right through the cat 's neck and came out the other side , leaving a gaping wound .
15 But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end .
16 For the second show their Captain stood by the pianist and rapped out the rhythm .
17 This is a spooning cheese and should be served by removing the top crust and scooping out the paste with a spoon — from the retailer 's point of view it is quite difficult to persuade customers that the cheese is as it should be .
18 Almost all of these are now covered in a spurious black patina ( plate 8.3 ) ; indeed one can go through the sculpture galleries of the Greek and Roman Department and pick out the Payne Knight pieces from a distance , before checking against the registration number which invariably begins with 1824 .
19 She drank her tea and held out the cup for one of the under-maids to fill .
20 So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty .
21 Can he raise the profile of good research and weed out the poorest work ?
22 Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ;
23 She reached inside the neck of her sweater and drew out the key on its chain .
24 She reached into her handbag and took out the key .
25 Donna reached into her handbag and pulled out the photo of Ward and the five other men .
26 I jumped off the wheelbarrow and pulled out the only literature I had to spare — details of the expedition in English .
27 Run a blunt knife around the inside edge of the tin and turn out the cake on to a wire rack to cool .
28 But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre .
29 She sat and stared at the view , while he opened the trunk and lifted out the sheet , complete with its light-brown rose of blood .
30 One reason for resistance to the new paradigm was the sheer impossibility of convincing geologists in the traditional way : by convening on an outcrop and hammering out the evidence .
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