Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it 's a beggar stretching out a hand for coins whilst the other conceals the knife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 4 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |
| 5 | She could even see a thrush pecking out a scarlet yew berry , swallowing the scarlet flesh and spitting out the poisonous pip . |
| 6 | At that meeting we hope to agree a manifesto setting out the policies which members think the Montgomeryshire Branch should adopt . |
| 7 | At some point individuals must administer , you ca n't have a committee carrying out the |
| 8 | This potentially infringes the " undivided loyalty " rule , even if the information about B was unknown to the individual advising A. If the information was passed on to A the firm would , however , breach its duty of confidentiality to B. A final example is that of a broker/dealer carrying out an agency cross and matching the transactions of two clients . |
| 9 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 10 | The ASB also published with the Foreword an exposure draft of a foreword carrying out the same role for Urgent Issues Task Force abstracts . |
| 11 | ‘ If someone has gone through the trauma of a crime like this the last thing they want to see is a court handing out a light sentence , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't answer me back , laddie , and do n't call me ‘ Corp ’ unless you want a spell cleaning out the latrines . ’ |
| 13 | The Act , which comes into effect on 12 October , legally obliges the seller to provide the buyer with a notice setting out the right to cancel and a blank cancellation form before signing the agreement . |
| 14 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 15 | It would be no good having a receptionist blacking out every time they jacked in . |
| 16 | Here the impression is that the object of make is given no choice but to perform the action expressed by the infinitive : in ( 147 ) the speaker even uses make to decline any personal responsibility for what he did — he was " acting under coercion " , a paraphrase bringing out the concurrent nature of the causation involved in these sentences . |
| 17 | A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in , but which was important . |
| 18 | Merely as a treaty setting out a range of human rights which the states parties undertake , in international law , to observe , there is nothing new about the Convention . |
| 19 | According to Mr Gross , the JMU demands more than adequate planning , controlling and recording of work ; does not distinguish between small and large companies ; and expects a memorandum setting out the outline ordered approach . |
| 20 | She did n't have any idea of the way you eased into queries of this sort , and to have a jukebox banging out the Rolling Stones would not provide the right background . |
| 21 | To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement setting out the action which he has taken since the report of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry about the circumstances relating to its consideration of the House of Fraser issue . |
| 22 | Each year it has produced a report setting out the state of the education service , and each year Ministers have treated that report as though it were a piece of stinking fish . |
| 23 | Whatever the problems for a school carrying out a review , there remains an ambiguity about where the locus of curricular control lies . |
| 24 | She has given the High Court in London a map marking out an area of several hundred yards around her home from which she wants the man barred . |
| 25 | Ms Bonham Carter , 26 , has given the High Court in London a map marking out an area of several hundred yards around her home from which she wants the man barred . |
| 26 | I can see a bottle poking out the basket and there 's a chicken too , all brown and cooked . |
| 27 | Charles Ltd. ( 1938 K.B. ) ; to compound and supply animal foodstuff according to a formula setting out the ingredients and their proportions , Ashington Piggeries v. Hill ( 1971 H.L. ) . |
| 28 | Yet a judgment striking out a complete action for want of prosecution or for any other reason was appealable only with leave . |
| 29 | If Yggdrasil stuck a terminal in , I would have spent the rest of my life floating in a tank living out a Late , Late Show rerun . |
| 30 | That 's a rocket calling out the crew , crew |