Example sentences of "[vb pp] out the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 5 | The two clubs have obviously sorted out the wide gap between their respective ideas of the compensation Stoke should receive and it 's now become clear that Macari will be allowed to negotiate his new terms WITH Stoke City 's approval . |
| 6 | In fact , my dear , we 've looked out the old bath chair . |
| 7 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 8 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 9 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 10 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the BAF were ‘ sad for Jason Livingston , ’ but added : ‘ We have carried out the right procedures and we would fight any court case to the bitter end to defend our position . ’ |
| 11 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
| 12 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 13 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 14 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
| 15 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 16 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 17 | Although HP has already carried out the main task of porting Unicenter to a RISC platform , the Sun port involves the move from a Berkeley-based operating system over to V.4 , as well as the work involved in supporting Solaris value-add . |
| 18 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 19 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |
| 20 | They the the leads carried out the proper procedure , what 's laid down for them . |
| 21 | If you feel drained ( despite having carried out the previous visualisations ) , take a shower , if possible , or a bath containing essence of juniper . |
| 22 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 23 | Likewise , our early ancestors most probably sifted out the useful plants by scent , sight and intuition . |
| 24 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 25 | Here they have sought out the well-oxygenated water where the streamer weed grows thick and the natural food breeds in profusion . |
| 26 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 27 | The newspapers also sought out the previous victims of The Fox 's sex attacks . |
| 28 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 29 | A combination of wind , traffic and camcorder noise have drowned out the required soundtrack . |
| 30 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |