Example sentences of "[v-ing] out the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 2 | The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who . |
| 3 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 4 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 6 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 7 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 8 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 9 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 10 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 11 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 12 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 13 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 14 | Eleven laboratories in eight countries are carrying out the first stage , synthesising new compounds for tests . |
| 15 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 16 | Our annual institutional presentations held in London , Edinburgh and Paris mapping out the next phase of company development were also well received . |
| 17 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
| 18 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 19 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 21 | There was no hesitation in working out the next number in the sequence — 13 . |