Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ He put me on the spot and eventually pulled out of the deal as much as I did . |
| 3 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 4 | Weber looked thoughtfully out at , the battle-torn cavern , and slowly reached out to the ship 's telegraph , ringing up the order to start engines . |
| 5 | I tell you I was flabbergasted and right terrified out of my wits . |
| 6 | He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below . |
| 7 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 8 | Keith Mills and Mike Timothy took to the water , made waves and generally splashed out for charity when they took part in the BT Swimathon in March . |
| 9 | All electric fencing requires regular attention to ensure the system is ‘ alive ’ and not earthed out by wet grass touching the wires . |
| 10 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 11 | I must also come in when I am told and sit down and eat my meals properly and not run out into the street with a slice of bread in my hand . |
| 12 | The Roman theatre , when built on a new site , differed from the Greek pattern in that it was generally constructed above ground and not hollowed out from the hillside . |
| 13 | ‘ His eyes are sharp and piercing , his nose well formed , his beard reddish , his lips fine and not pulled out of shape by too long a mouth . |
| 14 | The money is frozen in the hands of a third party and not paid out to either side . |
| 15 | As a result of the threatened strike — in which the women 's participation would have been crucial — Neill 's came to a separate agreement with the men , signed the memorial and thus dropped out of the dispute during the month of August . |
| 16 | Transformation was first discovered in pneumococci and largely worked out in the genus Bacillus . |
| 17 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 18 | Your article on the problems of foreign-owned stockbrokers in Tokyo ( ‘ Gaijin , gaijin , gone ’ , December 22nd ) has caused considerable offence within Barclays and has quite unfairly and incorrectly singled out for attack one of our middle managers , Michael Tomalin . |
| 19 | They had just simply and totally fallen out of love with each other , and like the devout Catholics they were , carried on as a pretence . |
| 20 | Once suitable terms have been settled and , one hopes , clearly and concisely set out in a signed agreement , you will be in a position to give the job your undivided attention , secure in the knowledge that you have created the right conditions for job survival . |
| 21 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 22 | She took the flowers from her hair and carefully stepped out of the tunic . |
| 23 | The Code , or Rules of Conduct , commanded that ‘ Duties … shall be faithfully and strictly carried out with an iron will , ready to meet death . ’ |
| 24 | Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship . |
| 25 | It is vital that this point is understood by all parties concerned and clearly set out in the terms of engagement letter . |
| 26 | Tony Bottoms ( 1983 : 176–7 ) has compared this notion to that of the ‘ sin-bin ’ in ice hockey : the player who has committed a foul is excluded ( or ‘ disqualified ’ ) from the game for a while and symbolically marked out as an offender , but after a term of fixed duration the player is allowed to rejoin the game as a full participant or ‘ requalified subject ’ . |
| 27 | There was n't a single man who was n't there all spruced up and well turned out at this awkward hour . |
| 28 | He dummied and immediately pointed out to the referee his opponent 's falter ( whether he actually stepped off-side or not ! ) . |
| 29 | With the bishop of Winchester he presented Kilwardby with his pallium in May 1273 and immediately set out for Burgundy to meet Edward I on his return from crusade . |
| 30 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |