Example sentences of "[verb] out " in BNC.

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1 No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang .
2 Fidelma stumped out of the room , deciding she had pressed her luck far enough and Timothy put his cup down , oddly disturbed .
3 Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char .
4 As a temporary repair , empty out water and encase the ball in a polythene bag tied with elastic
5 All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time .
6 If the float is holed , replace it ( it simply unscrews ) or , as a temporary measure , empty out the water , then tie a plastic bag around it to stop water getting back in .
7 A temporary solution is to enlarge the pinhole , empty out the water and tie a plastic bag over the ball .
8 empty out and if the automatic stuff do n't work .
9 They showed that each class normally appeared first in a very generalized form , from which radiated out a number of lines of development each leading towards a specialized modification of the class for a particular way of life .
10 Once the pioneers of a new level of development were given the chance to flourish , they radiated out into a whole range of orders and families to take advantage of all the various possible means of gaining a livelihood .
11 Now it sat upon a plinth of stone the height of two standing men which was at the concourse of the broad principal streets which radiated out from Kinsai like the spokes of a wheel .
12 On the Red Hall estate on Tuesday he was taking his orders from Coun. Sonia Willans standing at a central point while the other members radiated out .
13 Her face is coming back to me yet again , reforming out of bouncing shadow .
14 The pulp was then passed onto rollers and subsequently pegged out to dry .
15 Pegged out : dental problems may be a symptom of other illness in the body , above .
16 Below us in the village square Kalchu had pegged out his backstrap loom and was weaving a length of grey goat's-hair cloth to make a rug .
17 A long-net , when pegged out , should stand 2 foot 6 inches ( 0.75 metres ) off the ground .
18 And in case you 're one of these pricks that think reggae pegged out with Marley , here 's the modern breed .
19 Stability : for such a large tent , its stability was good with all the guys pegged out .
20 With all the external guys pegged out it hardly moves in the wind .
21 However , if the winds are strong it is better left till last until the flysheet is pegged out .
22 Stability : this is a well designed , aerodynamic tent with excellent stability in strong winds when all the guylines are pegged out .
23 Once the inner is up and pegged out the flysheet , made from 190D double coated pu nylon , goes over the top and is pegged to the ground using eight ground points and two guylines .
24 Two side guylines are then pegged out to secure the flysheet .
25 The rest of the tent is then laid and pegged out .
26 She was lean , dark-skinned , and ancient and wizened as the baccala , the salt cod pegged out in the harbour to dry .
27 They resembled washing lines , although instead of clothes , several dozen peculiar wooden and metal contraptions were pegged out .
28 Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own .
29 The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen .
30 The alcohol inside was now only faintly blurring out the throbbing pain in his jaw .
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