Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the current European Communities-European Free Trade Area negotiations [ see p. 37906 ] , the programme avoided ruling out the possibility of an eventual application for EC membership . |
| 2 | The outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force admitted carrying out the shooting . |
| 3 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 4 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 5 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 6 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 7 | Slowly , imperceptibly , Mrs Burrows influence began to draw out the woman 's hidden qualities until one day she shocked the neighbourhood in a different way : by appearing decently dressed , and at tending the women s meeting . |
| 8 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
| 9 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 10 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 11 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 12 | A professional development teacher interviewed pointed out the ambiguity of HMI expounding an aesthetic domain in Curriculum Matters 2 ( DES , 1985c ) and continuing to publish further booklets in this series under subject headings . |
| 13 | The officer in charge decided to turn out the lights for ten minutes to allow the culprit to return the goods . |
| 14 | The bomb had taken out the café , and the two floors above it . |
| 15 | NEWCASTLE boss Kevin Keegan last night vowed to wipe out the bitter memory of their last trip to Derby . |
| 16 | The last one 's meat had run out the previous day and if the new one 's meat was not salted within a day or two , there would be no pork or bacon for at least a month . |
| 17 | A dripping waterpipe had shortened out the starting motor which had been activated and started the main engine . |
| 18 | But the heat and the darkness and the twisted magic had long since drained the heart from the land ; the dark sorcery had sucked out the goodness and turned it into a stunted , abandoned place . |
| 19 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 20 | The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper . |
| 21 | The Corporation had bought out the right-of-way from the Claremont Park Company in 1895 , and constructed a three-tier Promenade . |
| 22 | Instead , a ‘ position de barrage ’ a well-organised defensive wall was to be erected along the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had traced out the night he took over command . |
| 23 | In a statement broadcast by Radio Free Bougainville and repeated by Radio Australia , a BRA spokesman vowed to drive out the invasion force . |
| 24 | On Feb. 28 the government refused to carry out the destruction of Scud missile materials . |
| 25 | Piggy had ruled out the beast scientifically and when he said |
| 26 | The night before , our host had pointed out the Building |
| 27 | The latrines were proclaimed disgusting and abandoned for the privacy of open spaces , and the red bitch continued to lick out the dirty dishes before Mina swilled them cursorily with river water . |
| 28 | The children had been watching TV and the noise had drowned out the sound of the fire raging downstairs . |
| 29 | Their own family experience had spelled out the horrors of bigotry and racial hatred ; to these general and now somewhat distant things came the chilling reality of Adolf Hitler 's seizure of power in Germany . |
| 30 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |