Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I think that it is sensible , even when you send stuff out to subbies , to make sure that you 've got a reasonable plan , especially when you send out to subbies , because they 're very hard to control anyway and you 've got to make sure that you 've not sent unrealistic targets , either too high or too low .
2 whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ;
3 As bookings sank by 40% , Airtours had to pull out of resorts such as Cyprus and Tunisia .
4 The millionaire band have been forced to pull out of dates in Toronto , Denver and San Diego after Metallica 's James Hetfield burnt his arm .
5 Without the spring trimming there would be no pressure required to change speeds or to pull out of dives , and the controls would be very light indeed .
6 Kerly bows out in tears
7 WALKING out of movies is something I have done only four times in my career .
8 Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino .
9 Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder .
10 Rising from a high crag above the fertile Cheshire Plain , Beeston Castle stands out for miles around , drawing you like a magnet from afar .
11 HarperCollins stands out in terms of both quality and volume of titles published , with Little , Brown 's Orbit imprint and Random House 's Legend list also showing strongly .
12 Approaching from Cozumel or the north , the Mayan temple at Tulum in Mexico 's Yucatan province stands out from miles away , a square mass in a small indentation on an otherwise low-lying and featureless coastline .
13 Now let's have a nationwide campaign spelling out to youngsters how Ecstasy causes internal bleeding and brain damage .
14 Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) .
15 During the winter of 1908–9 , however , Picasso produced two very large canvases ( larger than any he was to produce until the summer of 1914 ) which seem to stand out from others that surround them and which have been the subject of much stimulating argument and discussion .
16 And a competitive working environment drew out from directors and writers the best they could achieve .
17 Rarer are helictites which leap out of roofs or walls , winding out into passageways .
18 For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death .
19 er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more .
20 We went up a narrow street where children peered out of doorways .
21 ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ .
22 Up and down the country , Opposition Front-Benchers have come out with protestations about what they will give this , that and the other interest group ; the document will make clear the order of priorities , and will begin to explain how the expenditure will be paid for .
23 Because we had people coming into the town that had come out of rooms one and two rooms in Har , in wherever they came from to Harlow and there were so many things that they required for their home that they could n't afford to have big families and pay their way .
24 Her vision of inter-governmental European co-operation within a wider ‘ Atlantic ’ framework seemed to have won out over schemes for more radical co-operation .
25 The growth of , usually , a flower is recorded in single frames spaced out over hours or days ; schools could even conduct this type of experiment with suitable 16mm or 8mm equipment .
26 Instead , males tend to be spaced out in territories , and they attract females to them by calling .
27 Intact chromosomes can be lifted out of cells for genetic studies ; plant protoplasts ( cells devoid of their cell walls ) can be persuaded to grow into whole plants and much has been learned of plant metabolism by grafting experiments — for example the grafting of tomato tops to potato tubers demonstrated the energy storing capacity of tubers , although the — hybrid was of little practical value hybrids of potato and tomato cells have also been grown .
28 FOLLOWING its success on tour last year , the Rogers and Hammerstein musical about Nazis , nuns and clothes conjured out of curtains , is back in Edinburgh .
29 In the cold-war days , most of its operations were pretty straightforward and problems could be sorted out by officers on the ground .
30 ‘ That all has to be sorted out by solicitors and accountants . ’
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