Example sentences of "[vb -s] out [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's .
2 I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger .
3 If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on .
4 He writes out a generous cheque and sends it off .
5 He holds out a sunburned arm .
6 Every once in a while he holds out a small portion of meat , which the Skeleton chews furiously and swallows , with the same lack of success as before .
7 Dwayne holds out a freckled ham .
8 And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy .
9 Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them .
10 The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy .
11 He sketches out a domed mountain with a pair of high corries and ledges that seem to form eyes and eyebrows , and a vertical crest of rock running down between them , passing a snowfield on either side …
12 Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade 's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability .
13 Peter Wharton , charged with protecting the magician puppet , said : ‘ Sooty bears out the old truism that life begins at 40 1992 will see him gain legs and a new Nineties image .
14 on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it .
15 To activate the system , the shopkeeper passes the card through a magnetic-strip reader in the terminal , enters the cost of the purchase , and the customer punches out a personal code on a detachable keypad .
16 The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening .
17 The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities , scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets .
18 Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them .
19 However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion .
20 The requirement for long-term robustness rules out the general use of dowels but the thought of complex , angled mortise and tenon joints is intimidating .
21 Furthermore , it is said , a defensive strategy based on such weapons effectively rules out the actual use of nuclear weapons .
22 Stencil , in short , pursues a quest the absurdity of which rules out the modernist option of structuring by myth .
23 But such an argument implicitly rules out an important alternative ; for it discounts the idea that the attempt to give an a priori defence of individualism may be mistaken .
24 I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) .
25 The problem is that soap washes out the natural skin oils which keep our skin supple and protect it from the ravages of the outside world .
26 You suggest that Detroit should ‘ join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services ’ ( May 8th ) .
27 Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services .
28 So everybody that reaches out a helping hand .
29 Look where you are , and then , ’ she reaches out the undamaged arm to drape it cosily over Rainbow 's hunched-up shoulders , ‘ look where I am .
30 With a pair of scissors the Inlay Operator cuts out a small piece of black card which he places on his white desktop .
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