Example sentences of "and [verb] out the first " in BNC.

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1 One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes .
2 Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could .
3 The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members .
4 By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands .
5 In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] .
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