Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A soldier pointed out the strangers to his commanding officer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A HEADMASTER has called on schools to join forces in a bid to stamp out the menace of solvent abuse in the North-East . |
| 13 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 14 | Posi 's voice sounded weary , like a parent pointing out the obvious to troublesome children . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 17 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 18 | Victims and health authorities agree that services are n't being properly coordinated , but one authority has promised to try to find a consultant to sort out the problem . |
| 19 | At that meeting we hope to agree a manifesto setting out the policies which members think the Montgomeryshire Branch should adopt . |
| 20 | At some point individuals must administer , you ca n't have a committee carrying out the |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | that the riots did not reflect a failure to carry out the ‘ urgent programme of action ’ recommended by Lord Scarman in 1981 , but were the outcome of a spiralling wave of crime and disorder in inner-city areas . |
| 23 | This can be the outcome of ( a ) a process which selects only those facts which prove a given case , and omits others — an intentional distortion of evidence ; or ( b ) an unwitting omission , a failure to carry out the exhaustive search for evidence which should characterise historical study . |
| 24 | On another occasion , I had asked a group to work out the ‘ best buy ’ between a 25 cl can of wine at £1.19 and a 150 cl bottle at £4.59 . |
| 25 | Find a fairly comfortable base , a place to spread out the newly-acquired tack . |
| 26 | We have to stop here for a moment to sort out the coordinates . |
| 27 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 28 | Your Lordships are motivated by a desire to carry out the intentions of Parliament in enacting legislation and have no intention or desire to question the processes by which such legislation was enacted or of criticising anything said by anyone in Parliament in the course of enacting it . |
| 29 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 30 | Where there exists such a reluctance to carry out the correct diagnostic procedures or , as is often the case , there is simply a dearth of properly trained specialists , the natural result is treatment without diagnosis , the haphazard use of antibiotics ( such as penicillin for all urethral discharges ) , and an increase in antibiotic resistance of the gonococci coupled with an infuriating denial of the problem , ‘ Just look at our figures . |