Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] out [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to find out if it was friendly . |
| 2 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 3 | We might for example want to find out if it 's freezing outside without going outside to feel directly how cold it is . |
| 4 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 5 | Erm , the kid 's got to figure out if it 's going to use that to project the other sentences then it might come across it 's got to , it 's got ta decompose that into structure . |
| 6 | No on really knows how a wine is going to turn out until it is bottled — even then , claret 's development is notoriously fickle . |
| 7 | But insurers have agreed to pay out if it is discovered in future that procedures which would now be classified as benign are found to cause environmental damage . |
| 8 | With such a commitment , McDonnell-Douglas may then decide to pull out if it concludes that the industry is not big enough for three profitable producers . |
| 9 | Then sit back , relax , and just take it easy , you wo n't have to go out when it 's all wet and breezy . |
| 10 | You can try to work out whether it is autobiography or murder mystery and how it works within these genre classifications . |
| 11 | Mankind will lose out in the long run if wild varieties of crop plant species are allowed to die out as it will mean that |
| 12 | It was Ashley Watt 's treat , of course ; I still could n't afford to eat out unless it was in the street and out of a paper poke . |
| 13 | That one is deliberately being allowed to dry out because it 's got to be re-coopered cos it never worked properly . |
| 14 | I am trying to find out if it was ED611 or RF141 that was involved in the Woodbridge incident ? |
| 15 | New friendship does not come easy to me , I feel compelled to play it rough at first — your idealism , for example , I had to find out whether it was capable of standing up ; testing and teasing , for me , are a kind of initiation — |
| 16 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 17 | She reached out and turned the clock towards her , blinking at the small ornate face , attempting to focus on the figures , trying to work out if it was twenty past twelve or twenty past one , finally deciding it was the earlier hour . |
| 18 | and er I 'm just trying to work out if it 's the same style as this . |
| 19 | At the end we er , of the day I had to opt out because it was n't possible for me to fit in and someone else a , I 'm just thinking of the time taken for er , er housing manager or one of his er , staff to erm er , you know , to do that practical thing that 's all |
| 20 | I was saying , I do n't think it 's true at all , but erm , I do n't know , I 'm trying to figure out whether it 's actually true or not . |
| 21 | Choose one of the shops and list the questions you would ask if you wanted to find out whether it was needed in your area . |
| 22 | ‘ We have to find out where it went . ’ |