Example sentences of "out and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the summer weather has brought out your sporty side , do n't feel you 've got to rush out and invest in a bank-breakingly expensive pair of trainers . |
| 2 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 3 | Leave to cool slightly in the tin before turning out and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely . |
| 4 | Leave to cool slightly in the tin(s) before turning out and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely . |
| 5 | Leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely . |
| 6 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 7 | Some companies have an automatic deletion of all e-mail messages more than three months old with the proviso that any important messages can be taken out and incorporated into a formal , structured system ( for example , a word processing system or individual accounts ) if that message needs to be retained or is a key part of another , more important story . |
| 8 | As he left the pitch he blacked out and fell through a glass door , cutting his hand . |
| 9 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 10 | Of these , five were killed by coyotes , which catch ferrets in the open , and one was dug out and killed by a badger . |
| 11 | A plan of this sort can always be worked out and imposed on a situation , but it is unlikely to work smoothly . |
| 12 | The surrounding buildings were two-storeyed , the upper built out and supported by a series of arched cloisters which every evening were thick with alpaca jerseys , rugs , cheap jewellery , bargain hunters and cloying money-changers . |
| 13 | Another potentially lethal hazard has been identified when baby-walkers are used ( Gray , 1987 ) ; it is easy for the child to reach out and pull on a kettle flex or iron flex which perhaps seemed safely tucked away and despite the apparent pleasure derived from baby-walkers , there is enough evidence of related accidents to recommend that they should not be used . |
| 14 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 15 | The trainee , together with the in-bureau tutor , should work out and carry through a tailor-made course of study . |
| 16 | The freshly opened colon was pinned out and examined under a Leitz dissecting microscope by two independent observers . |
| 17 | It poked out and wriggled like a slug . |
| 18 | Such bushes tend to wear out and detach after a period of use . |
| 19 | ‘ Obviously if all five of us went out and walked past a school at home time , we 'd be asking for trouble . |
| 20 | Wrap the marzipan in cling film or polythene to prevent drying out and keep in a cool place until needed . |
| 21 | Eva moved out and went to a hostel . |
| 22 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 23 | If I 've a complicated feature to write , or a problem to solve , I usually duck out and go for a run . |
| 24 | You either stand up and walk out and go to a different class , or you join in . |
| 25 | If there is an existing fitting with a spare 50mm boss socket , this can be drilled out and fitted with a boss connector of the appropriate size . |
| 26 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |
| 27 | Such tactics were carried out and sanctioned in a ‘ political atmosphere of panic ’ . |
| 28 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 29 | He got out and knocked at a window . |
| 30 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |