Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , he will not advise on the merits of a settlement offer , although with a view to increasing the likelihood of a deal , he may point out the strengths and weaknesses of each side 's arguments . |
| 2 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 3 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 4 | It was his decision as to when he should take out the target . |
| 5 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 6 | As an executive his functions must be exercised impartially and he must carry out the policy as decided by the council free from any political bias . |
| 7 | But the critic who undertakes such a task becomes a scientist , and he must shut out the ornaments of speech and persuasive language of the impressionist as dangerous guests in the laboratory of literary dissection . |
| 8 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 9 | He must find out the reason for it . |
| 10 | ‘ But if Medoc does summon Crom Croich , ’ said another soldier , ‘ he 'll send out the Conablaiche to tear people 's hearts from their bodies , and that 's just as bad as the Erl-King . ’ |
| 11 | Most women do n't really have a very high opinion of themselves , so if you start treating them as something special they think , ‘ Oh God , sooner or later he 'll find out the truth , and then he 'll despise me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll hang out the laundry right across the valley , ’ Harvey said . |
| 13 | " He envisages any show as a complete theatrical entity-staging , set design , choreography ; he 'll map out the whole show , then monitor it bar by bar — police it . |
| 14 | If , for instance , a doctor prescribes sleeping tablets for occasional use only , he might strike out the NP and put ‘ sleeping tablets ’ in the NP box . |
| 15 | He might cut out the middle man you see . |
| 16 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 17 | Or he could rent out the property … |
| 18 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 19 | Gradually , almost imperceptibly , the light strengthened and soon he could make out the shape of boats , the mexeflote causeway and the patchwork of woods and fields on the island . |
| 20 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 21 | Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth-century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . |
| 22 | Sure enough , he could make out the same almost subsonic throbbing as he had heard earlier . |
| 23 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 24 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 25 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 26 | He could sniff out the personal myth , the crucial one we all develop for ourselves , and make mincemeat of it . ’ |
| 27 | By measuring the trace amounts of radioactive carbon in coral skeletons , which decays at a known rate , he could work out the ages of the corals at different depths in his boreholes . |
| 28 | He could work out the house-style ; take legal responsibility for libel ; make sure nothing went in the paper which was against the editorial Charter when the Founders were not looking ; and he could put ‘ scoops ’ in the paper should the reporters come across some . |
| 29 | So then he sank onto the floor , to make himself as small as possible so that he could wait out the agony . |
| 30 | The general had in turn given him a picture of their problems with the Yugoslavs in Venezia Giulia : " General Harding was convinced that he could force out the Jugoslavs in their present numbers but it would of course entail an operation of Importance . |