Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In tide free waters like the Mediterranean we do n't have the same problem but we still need to consult a chart to find out a suitable location for sailing . |
| 2 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 3 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 4 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 5 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 6 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 7 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 8 | If I signed a contract to carry out a complete refurbishment of the interior of your house I have an obligation to fulfil that contract . |
| 9 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 10 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 11 | Sometimes it 's a beggar stretching out a hand for coins whilst the other conceals the knife . |
| 12 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 13 | They traversed lush apricot orchards without comment ; they ignored a shepherd holding out a bowl of milk ; wordlessly they returned to the village where Miss Fergusson , her calculated civility now restored to her , asked the elder if lodgings could be supplied to them without delay . |
| 14 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 15 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 16 | A soldier pointed out the strangers to his commanding officer . |
| 17 | In no way do they have a mandate to wipe out a whole stock and possibly a whole species simply for their convenience in carrying on with an unsophisticated fishing method . ’ |
| 18 | Inside the weight room a tape blared out the music of The Doors to remove the tedium of the hour-and-a-half session spent lifting , pushing and battling with weights . |
| 19 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 20 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 21 | Officials could increase next season 's four-month qualification period for players changing clubs to one season in a bid to stamp out the scandal . |
| 22 | A HEADMASTER has called on schools to join forces in a bid to stamp out the menace of solvent abuse in the North-East . |
| 23 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 24 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 25 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 26 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 27 | You can soak off old glue in water , but you may have to chisel or sand away modern adhesives and you 'll have to use a chisel to clean out the mortise . |
| 28 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 29 | And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers . |
| 30 | She could even see a thrush pecking out a scarlet yew berry , swallowing the scarlet flesh and spitting out the poisonous pip . |