Example sentences of "and [vb past] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 2 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 3 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 4 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 5 | Mr Cyril Stayley was the initial foreman of this shop and he established and laid out the system of repair . |
| 6 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 7 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 8 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |
| 9 | At the next trick , I continued my strategy of playing Clubs and led out the 9 . |
| 10 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 11 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 12 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 13 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 14 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 15 | Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman . |
| 16 | Bragg and Morton went through the unpretentious entrance of the New Club , in King Street , and sought out the Secretary . |
| 17 | The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions . |
| 18 | Mike Seale raced up to the tower with the manual and read out the emergency procedures . |
| 19 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 20 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 23 | Philip went over to the fire-place and emptied out the cigarette . |
| 24 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I wandered round and checked out the corpses . |
| 26 | They squinted into the sun and made out the shape of a boat near the midstream . |
| 27 | The Prophet leaned cautiously over the platform 's side rail , and made out the cop 's dim figure in the deep shadow cast by the iron staircase . |
| 28 | Can I say that as part of the budget discussions , this year and last year , the labour group went over all the services that the City Council provides with a fine tooth comb and argued out the case for all the spending that we then put forward in our budget . |
| 29 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 30 | He heard electrical impulses behind a large , old-fashioned enamelled flour bin on a high shelf in the kitchen and got out the step-ladder to investigate , bringing down the bin , which hit and broke a jar of clear honey in its descent ; he ended up with a mixture of flour and honey all over himself , the fridge and the floor . |