Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 3 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 5 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 6 | That means you 'd better sort out the hams and cheeses , Bella . |
| 7 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 8 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 9 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 10 | Meanwhile the noisy , more drunken and flagrantly homosexual Guy Burgess arrived to join the Washington embassy with a record of indiscretions which included loudly pointing out the local head of intelligence in a Gibraltar restaurant . |
| 11 | There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella . |
| 12 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 13 | He did n't wait for an answer , but strode forward to snuff out the candle , then edged the door open again . |
| 14 | One of the hon. Members who spoke earlier pointed out the dangers , and I wonder whether the Government are aware of the dangers of the policy that they are pursuing in relation to gas-fired power stations . |
| 15 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 16 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 17 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 18 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 19 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 20 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 21 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 22 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 23 | Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain . |
| 24 | Classical structuralism had already ruled out the possibility of explaining texts in terms of an author or a reality external to them , but its use of the linguistic analogy and its construction of a poetics had the effect of turning language and poetics into origins for literature . |
| 25 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 26 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 27 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 28 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 29 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 30 | My Early Intermediates had unwittingly pointed out the parallels between Karen 's refusal to ‘ go behind Dennis 's back ’ and the recorded conversation about money and shopping I had played them . |