Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 2 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 3 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 4 | We have carried out a few water changes , but our water is still dark green . |
| 5 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 6 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 7 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 8 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 9 | When a police car arrived , one man hopefully pointed out a few spots of blood on the pavement , mentally drawing a chalk circle round them and marking off the area with official police tape . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 11 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 12 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 13 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 14 | Well it is as mu it 's it 's worked out a few pounds cheaper . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |