Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 2 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 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 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 6 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 7 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 8 | Thrifty villagers had sorted out the best for their own uses , present or future . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 13 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |
| 14 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 15 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 18 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
| 19 | Trying to control the trembling in her legs , which felt as though they were made of cotton wool , Laura silently followed Ross across the green lawns to their guest cottage , where Carole had laid out the cold supper . |
| 20 | My reason for not signing the petition was quite clear : when I had spoken out the previous December not one other international , nor the IAC , had raised a peep when our sport was being vilified . |
| 21 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 22 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |
| 23 | So I picked him up and I carried him , Dorothy had gone out the wrong door , instead of going out the door at that end she 'd gone right along this long corridor |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It could n't have been anything else but Dad had put out the best wood the first time ; some of the rest was rotten . |
| 28 | After a year abroad , Laura and Bernard drove up to Rhydoldog in snow to find that Ruby and Molly , as a welcoming gesture , had put out the French flag on the lawn . |
| 29 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 30 | He reached the hotel unscathed , although the burns on his jacket showed where he had beaten out the phosphorous splashes with his leather gloves , and as he followed Peter Young there were , as he later described , ‘ different sounds , from the various calibres of arms , artillery exchanges between Kenya and a coast defence battery somewhere down the fjord , anti-aircraft fire from the ships against attacking Messerschmitts , the demolitions , and the crackling roar of flames ’ . |