Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older historians may still question the validity of oral data ; but , Briggs argues , ‘ you 've got to be critical of all forms of historical evidence ; they all have their pitfalls , but oral evidence is especially useful for recovering attitudes ’ — a point amply borne out by City Lives . |
| 2 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 3 | A BUSINESS almost cleaned out by burglars has put up a reward for information leading to conviction of the culprits . |
| 4 | Her mother 's friends , Lizzie Braithwaite and Maria Colclough and Ethel Lord were incensed by it , having used the act of sex all their wedded lives as something to bargain with , employing their very contempt for it as a punishment regularly meted out to husbands who lusted after the nasty performance far too much . |
| 5 | His tie was badly knotted , his shirt had a crumpled look — everything about him suggested a man hastily summoned out of bed . |
| 6 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Suddenly the trench became ‘ nothing more than a track hardly traced out amid the shell holes ’ . |
| 8 | A former PFL senator , Jorge Borhausen , was appointed to the newly-created Cabinet post of Secretary to the Presidency , with responsibility for rebuilding relations with Congress , a task previously carried out by Justice Minister Jarbas Passarinho . |