Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] out the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started to work out the next stage . |
| 2 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 3 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 4 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 5 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 6 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 7 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 8 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |