Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim is that one of the first to mark out John Smith 's future political career was the Labour leader , Hugh Gaitskell , who was in his time characterised and vilified as being right-wing . |
| 2 | I am usually one of the first to try out any new development . |
| 3 | Last year Campbell Soup , one of the last to hold out , started making own-label goods — except soups . |
| 4 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 5 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |