Example sentences of "out the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 2 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 3 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 4 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 5 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 6 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 7 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 8 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 9 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
| 10 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 11 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
| 12 | In fact , you were probably in your adult state when you bought this book to help you decide how to figure out the next stages of your life . |