Example sentences of "[to-vb] out the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 2 | Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus . |
| 3 | And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak . |
| 4 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |
| 5 | In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures . |
| 6 | Edward Hall , the director of the laboratory , says that archaeologists are keen to try out the new system . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 8 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 9 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 10 | Pupils are helped to work out the rules and patterns for themselves and to try out the new language forms . |
| 11 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 12 | In 1987 she advertised for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to try out the three-week diet and fill in questionnaires . |
| 13 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |
| 14 | Children who came hoping to try out the latest Streetfighter games nearly ended up in street fights themselves . |
| 15 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 16 | Radioactivity helped the solar wind to sift out the dense iron-nickel from the silicates , and was the main energy source in turning the inner cores of planets molten . |
| 17 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 18 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
| 19 | She rubbed out the H with a single furious sweep and began to write out the entire alphabet in order , one impeccable letter after another . |
| 20 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 21 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand of France threw his weight yesterday behind a Soviet proposal to bring forward to next year a 35-nation conference to hammer out the future shape of Europe . |
| 22 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 23 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 24 | And just as well : because , however persuasive the case for the public ownership of particular industries , experience since 1945 can hardly be said to bear out the general case , the proposition that public ownership is the necessary precursor to the realisation of the rights of man . |
| 25 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
| 26 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 27 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 28 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 29 | He found only Ulysses deeply human , with his craftiness and patience , and Oedipus , who wished to find out the unaccommodable truth about himself , and Perseus , who kept his heart from turning to stone . |
| 30 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |