Example sentences of "[vb -s] out a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes out a generous cheque and sends it off . |
| 2 | He holds out a sunburned arm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dwayne holds out a freckled ham . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So everybody that reaches out a helping hand . |
| 11 | With a pair of scissors the Inlay Operator cuts out a small piece of black card which he places on his white desktop . |
| 12 | Examination questions should be answered with the skill that marks out a good chess player . |
| 13 | Fired by his own enthusiasm , he stops his sledge and gets out a huge snow drill , like a brace and bit but capable of boring a twenty centimetre hole . |
| 14 | She shams indifference , takes out a small pocket knife and begins to trim those meticulously tended sapphic fingernails . |
| 15 | But this takes out a philosophical loan that must be repaid in the post-philosophical sciences which explain the affinity in question . |
| 16 | He takes out a Danish pastry . |
| 17 | It takes out a blue tag printed with the words ‘ Staff in confidence ’ and sticks it into the space on the label . |
| 18 | By moving out wide , Deane invariably takes out a tall defender — which presumably leaves more space for people like Speed to move into . |
| 19 | When the houses are up , the co-operative takes out a real loan with a building society . |
| 20 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 21 | ( She takes out a little flag . ) |
| 22 | AN ageing French woman ekes out a privileged life pulling off jewel heists with a decrepit sidekick . |
| 23 | Louis Montrose points out a fascinating consequence of this : ‘ If the world is a theatre and the theatre is an image of the world , then by reflecting upon its own artifice , the drama is holding the mirror up to nature ’ ( Montrose , ‘ Purpose of Playing ’ , 57 ) . |
| 24 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 25 | When the page is ready for press , the photosetter turns out a high-quality proof at the touch of a button . |
| 26 | This drives out a great deal of air through the porous clay of the mould producing a partial vacuum which helps to suck the metal quickly into place when the arrangement is inverted . |
| 27 | ‘ Gotcha , ’ Claire says , and pulls out a black box . |
| 28 | Bernard leafs through the vast vinyl collection propped up against his bedroom wall , and pulls out a freshly-purchased copy of Television 's ‘ Marquee Moon ’ to illustrate Tom Verlaine 's mastery of the tasteful , moving solo . |
| 29 | There , in Geneva , in a gentleman 's library , he came across a copy of the Elements of Geometry , in which Euclid methodically organizes and systematically lays out a large amount of geometrical knowledge . |
| 30 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |