Example sentences of "of [v-ing] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 2 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 3 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 4 | In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town . |
| 5 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 6 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 7 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 8 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 9 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 10 | What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy . |
| 11 | Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower . |
| 12 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 13 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 14 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 15 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 16 | Jack fell quickly into the routine of looking out for the absurdities in his father 's speech to put into a P'dayta-Pie for Warnie ; but he had no heart for it . |
| 17 | So , instead of splashing out for the big one , we 've got a number of gorgeous jewels to give away . |
| 18 | This was sheer luxury after years of stumbling out into the dark at all hours , forcing our eyes to stay open , and yawning fit to split our faces in two . |
| 19 | The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet . |
| 20 | Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing . |
| 21 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 22 | ‘ You are n't thinking of going out into the jungle to exercise for old times ’ sake ? ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps if she admitted she was scared of going out of the room ? |
| 24 | Austin , Texas-based , Tivoli Systems Inc has appointed Chris Grafft as vice president of Unix development : the distributed management software company , which has collected $6m in venture money so far , is thinking of going out for a ‘ few million ’ more in a third round . |
| 25 | Philip Larkin , a life-long bachelor , memorialised that dilemma in ‘ Vers de société ’ ( 1971 ) , a short poem where the conclusion , though finely balanced , is only marginally in favour of going out for the evening . |
| 26 | Eric Cantona 's 85th minute goal was far too little and unfortunately far too late to save Howard Wilkinson 's men suffering the agony of going out for the second time in the space of five weeks . |
| 27 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 28 | The inherent danger of standing in the centre circus ring of pop amid accusations of selling out to the mainstream ? |
| 29 | Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites . |
| 30 | Brockweir residents accuse the council of selling out to the highest bidder instead of letting future generations go to school in their own village . |