Example sentences of "by [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was Costello simply upping his profile as a serious performer by hanging out with egghead musicians whose forte is Shostakovich rather than Chuck Berry ? |
| 2 | Deer ruin their chances of being awesome beasts , providing a rare and special experience to those who spot them , by standing in massive herds all along the verge of the A9 looking glum , and grouse lose points for frightening you half to death by crashing out of the heather from under your feet screeching like banshees . |
| 3 | Both he and Ted McMinn were fined by the club after breaking a New Year curfew by sneaking out to a late-night disco the night before a crunch match against Celtic . |
| 4 | In September he startled Italians by lashing out at one of Sicily 's most popular fighters against the Mafia , Leoluca Orlando , an ex-mayor of Palermo , who was guilty in Mr Cossiga 's mind of damaging the Christian Democratic Party . |
| 5 | Other members of the family may be able to share care by helping out on alternative days or weeks , or over a two day period once a month , so that you can attend a back to nursing course . |
| 6 | Mr Bernard , on the other hand , would be destroyed by branching out into another career . |
| 7 | Just by stepping out of your hotel , you are more than likely to find a tree-lined road and a hand-made mosaic stone footpath . |
| 8 | FIRST Daughter Chelsea Clinton , 12 , is following the hottest trend in footwear by stepping out in Birkenstocks . |
| 9 | Attaingnant lost no time in following the examples of Petrucci and Antico by bringing out in 1529 a Tres breue et familiere introduction pour entendre et apprendre … a iouer toutes chansons reduictes en la tablature du Lutz , containing among other things seven of Claudin 's songs from the Chansons nouvelles … a quatre parties of the previous year , now arranged both for lute solo and for voice with lute accompaniment . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the Home Secretary was persuaded that anything which might help towards countering the rising prison population by keeping out of prison those who need not be there was worth trying : |
| 11 | So by keeping out of the way and staying at sea he hoped to put himself right . |
| 12 | He ignores me when he can and I co-operate by keeping out of his way , because I like the job . |
| 13 | At this point the sons are painfully and traumatically initiated — that is , they are subjected to brutal assaults , frightening experiences , are deprived of their mothers and all normal support and , usually at the climax of these experiences , are symbolically castrated by means of some customary mutilation ( very often the rather close equivalent represented by circumcision , but otherwise by knocking out of teeth , pulling out of nails , loss of fingers , etc . ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , Puddephat had scandalized other dons by storming out after claiming the place-setting was a deliberate insult . |
| 15 | If Councillor had actually stayed , he would know why this is so important to the people of whom I may say he has cruelly deserted by walking out of the debating chamber and what he 's saying to the people of is that Liberal Councillors A wo n't prepare speeches like his colleague earlier on or they wo n't stay in the debate they are not going to be properly represented when we take important decisions , both nationally and locally . |
| 16 | You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened . |
| 17 | Well apart from allowing them to breathe , and apart from the sheer fun of it , it appears that by leaping out of the water they actually conserve energy when swimming at high speeds ( Journal of the Marine Biological Association . |
| 18 | The driver of the express , who had managed to save his life by leaping out of the engine , blamed station officials for the crash and on Jan. 9 police arrested two Sangi station signalmen . |
| 19 | Lenny Roberts began the dramatic demo by climbing out of a window at Birmingham 's Victoria Law Courts . |
| 20 | They may bend the small tree towards neighbouring tree by climbing out onto side branches of the pole tree ; in other circumstances , the apes swing pole trees back and forth to gain momentum — often initially bending the trees away from their direction of travel , Orang-utans also swing across on vines , first untangling them ; if a suitable vine is already stretched across a gap , a beast may walk across on top , balancing in the manner of a circus tightrope walker . |
| 21 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 22 | Big stars often indulge their whims by splashing out on things like yachts , private zoos and personal helicopters . |
| 23 | The economy introduced by the suffix notation may be illustrated by writing out in full as follows Now the direction of dS in the coordinate axes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is given by the direction cosines . |
| 24 | This position is of course and the differential dXi is given by as may be verified by writing out in full the expression in square brackets . |
| 25 | You can find dozens of natural microhabitats simply by looking out for them , or you can make your own . |
| 26 | Study this example : unc We can save rewriting by looking out for common factors above and below the division line . |
| 27 | The never-ending dust-storms prevent the space travellers from knowing , by looking out of their spacecraft portholes , whether it is a Martian day or night . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , a penthouse is like any other home , only it 's right up on top of a building and you can see for miles and miles just by looking out of your sitting room window . ’ |
| 29 | They are even willing to give parents a much needed rest in the evenings by listening out for the children ( once settled ) , thereby allowing the parents time off . |
| 30 | Trumpet fish may even locate their prey by listening out for fish 's calls . |