Example sentences of "[vb past] out the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim found out the appalling details of his wife 's killing when he finally got through to Elizabeth 's fiance Cuan Cronje . |
| 2 | Players ' union chief Gordon Taylor — whose organisation helped out the United players with wages — said : ‘ We have every sympathy for the players and supporters . |
| 3 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 4 | Looking up , she slowly spelt out the faded letters on the broken-off arm of the signpost , and then she had a shock . |
| 5 | It was the Queen , not Prince Philip , who spelt out the brutal alternatives . |
| 6 | This drove out the tawny owls . |
| 7 | After the Sun was formed , piercing heat and radioactivity drove out the icy particles which formed giant balls of gas further out . |
| 8 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 9 | Hyacinth , quieter now , glanced around the room in embarrassment and her mother at once shooed out the smaller children . |
| 10 | NIGEL FILLED OUT THE REQUISITE FORMS AT THE HOSPITAL DESK WITH Dr Kingsley standing over him . |
| 11 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 12 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 13 | Reaching down , he delved beneath three code books , hauled out the six passports with his photograph — minus glasses — and all in different names . |
| 14 | But he had always failed to impress the grown-ups in Never Never Land : the ones who handed out the end-of-term prizes , and the folk who decided which movies were important and meaningful , as opposed to escapist fun for all the family . |
| 15 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 16 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 17 | In his speech to the Assembly , Drnovsek laid out the main themes of his government 's programme . |
| 18 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 19 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 20 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 21 | Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them . |
| 22 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 23 | It seems quite likely , since the ancient inhabitants of Crete and other Mediterranean islands wiped out the indigenous populations of elephants , pygmy hippos , giant dormice , and owls , for no better reason than that they needed to eat . |
| 24 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 25 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 26 | What will the Minister say to people who will receive the new allowance from April when they learn that last Friday a Conservative Back Bencher talked out the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill ? |
| 27 | It singled out the upper reaches of primary schools for particular criticism . |
| 28 | Well du when the war broke out the all bakers up to the age of twenty seven was reserved . |
| 29 | The term is ultimately derived from the Greek ‘ khoros ’ , a dance , the modern ‘ chorus ’ arriving because the dancers in Greek theatre sang out the repetitive bits and encouraged the audience to join in . |
| 30 | Her figure-hugging topaz velvet suit brought out the tawny lights in her brown eyes . |