Example sentences of "out [conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 2 | But then again , as he said , there 's plenty of grass and as for turning them out or taking their does , if they 're all up to his size and weight they 've nothing to fear from a crowd like us . |
| 3 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 4 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 5 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 6 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 7 | Has the man from British Rail ever wondered ? ; — Supermarket managers taking toddlers through the check out and telling them they ca n't have the sweets that are especially positioned within their grasp . |
| 8 | In addition to improving service you also have a sound basis for going out and telling your customer what you are doing , which can act as a useful marketing tool . ’ |
| 9 | The most dangerous of all the spiders is the black widow , a small species that is common throughout America and which responds to vibrations of its web by rushing out and biting what it considers to be its next meal . |
| 10 | He found himself suddenly reaching out and touching someone or making some wild arm movement without thinking . |
| 11 | ‘ I always thought it was solid , ’ said Billie , coming up to it , reaching out and touching it in awe . |
| 12 | Are you all going out and leaving me in here ? |
| 13 | At 10.00 pm the Corporal came round to check that we were all present and in bed before turning the lights out and leaving us to sleep . |
| 14 | On Feb. 12 in the village of Bara in Bihar state , hundreds of people described in press reports as Maoist extremists launched a violent attack apparently directed against upper-caste Hindu landlords , burning down houses and dragging men out and beheading them . |
| 15 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 16 | If you 're unhappy and miserable because you 're lonely , then you have to find other ways to address that than going out and buying something to wear , or getting drunk . |
| 17 | The only supervision required is the kind that will keep the addict from going out and buying something to satisfy his craving . |
| 18 | Three young men , all old enough to buy shirts for themselves , and their father 's still going out and buying them shirts ! |
| 19 | Well what 's the difference between throwing this one out and throwing them out and burning them ? |
| 20 | As the train slowed down , Sam came over to the fireman 's side and looked out and seeing nothing , suddenly realised the legend of the bridge . |
| 21 | ‘ Through refining our feed , by leaving things out and seeing what happens , we have been able to define the dietary requirements of the prawn throughout its development . |
| 22 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 23 | Xanthe was shaking out and smoothing her full skirt . |
| 24 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 25 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 26 | I saw him crying out and holding his hands over his face . |
| 27 | Willi Dungl was still around making Niki work out and adjusting his psyche and Niki knew , if he wanted to , he could make his comeback . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher saw this as the tragic side of a prosperous Britain , pointing out on the BBC news on 20 August 1989 when visiting the wreck , that people had more money nowadays , and seemed to be going out and enjoying themselves , which was why so many people were on board . |
| 29 | And this has been brought about to enhance your safety , not only when you 're at your place of work , but when you 're out and enjoying your social evening either at a theatre , a pub , a club or the cinema or wherever you may be . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |