Example sentences of "and [vb past] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 2 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 3 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |
| 4 | Mr Cyril Stayley was the initial foreman of this shop and he established and laid out the system of repair . |
| 5 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 6 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 7 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 8 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 9 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 10 | The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions . |
| 11 | Bragg and Morton went through the unpretentious entrance of the New Club , in King Street , and sought out the Secretary . |
| 12 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 13 | Mike Seale raced up to the tower with the manual and read out the emergency procedures . |
| 14 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 15 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 16 | Philip went over to the fire-place and emptied out the cigarette . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I wandered round and checked out the corpses . |
| 18 | The Prophet leaned cautiously over the platform 's side rail , and made out the cop 's dim figure in the deep shadow cast by the iron staircase . |
| 19 | They squinted into the sun and made out the shape of a boat near the midstream . |
| 20 | Can I say that as part of the budget discussions , this year and last year , the labour group went over all the services that the City Council provides with a fine tooth comb and argued out the case for all the spending that we then put forward in our budget . |
| 21 | Uncle Albert made the drinks and got out the biscuit tin . |
| 22 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 23 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 24 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |
| 25 | He heard electrical impulses behind a large , old-fashioned enamelled flour bin on a high shelf in the kitchen and got out the step-ladder to investigate , bringing down the bin , which hit and broke a jar of clear honey in its descent ; he ended up with a mixture of flour and honey all over himself , the fridge and the floor . |
| 26 | His wife , an enormous woman in black , wailed and wrung out the ends of her skirt . |
| 27 | The grown-ups found a café , ordered raki , and found out the day of the week from the waiter . |
| 28 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 29 | But after one fall too many , he went to the doctor and found out the truth . |
| 30 | And at last , Rosalba sighed , smilingly , as she dipped and looped and drew out the thread herself , there was the dress for the sorceress . |