Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 3 | And above the flames of burning houses rose up to drown out the moonlight and rush hot air into their streaming faces . |
| 4 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 6 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 7 | That means you 'd better sort out the hams and cheeses , Bella . |
| 8 | And though she was certain she 'd only sent out a couple of hundred invitations , it felt as though there must be at least ten times as many of the little darlings present . |
| 9 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 10 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 11 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 12 | And he swung off to sort out the problem . |
| 13 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the noisy , more drunken and flagrantly homosexual Guy Burgess arrived to join the Washington embassy with a record of indiscretions which included loudly pointing out the local head of intelligence in a Gibraltar restaurant . |
| 15 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 16 | It was no accident , therefore , that Bukharin went on to point out the real advances already made by the Soviet economy , particularly in industry , during the preceding period . |
| 17 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 18 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 19 | Allen went on sorting out the rope and every now and then tugging at it to test it . |
| 20 | I thought , and went on making out the list . |
| 21 | There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella . |
| 22 | ‘ They sent them in , ’ says Wright , ‘ so I went along to check out the Roedean girls ’ cricket last summer . |
| 23 | One of them reached over to search out the right tape and handed it to his Sheikh . |
| 24 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 25 | I was helping Con in the saloon , and then he went off to sort out a spot of bother in the public , and I 've hardly seen him since . |
| 26 | Her car seat squeaked as Blanche reached up to switch out the light . |
| 27 | So you knew how to carry out a literature search before you came on this course ? |
| 28 | He did n't wait for an answer , but strode forward to snuff out the candle , then edged the door open again . |
| 29 | He went round carrying out the usual checks , asking the usual questions . |
| 30 | The £2.5 million-rated forward , a long time target of the Villa boss , pounced twice to cancel out a brace from Villa midfielder Matthias Breitkreutz . |