Example sentences of "were get out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books were got out but little was done . |
| 2 | Suspicions were got out of the way . |
| 3 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 4 | They were getting out of a stretch limo when we rolled up in our private bus . |
| 5 | As tournament organisers were getting out their calculators , spectators were still marvelling at Ivanisevic 's superb performance . |
| 6 | During 1983–84 concern began to grow among both agencies and advertisers that production costs were getting out of hand . |
| 7 | Things were getting out of hand . |
| 8 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 9 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 10 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 11 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 12 | It was true that things were getting out of hand . |
| 13 | The massacre happened shortly before 9am , when the workmen were getting out of their red van . |
| 14 | It might also assist in work share and offset because perhaps if things were getting out of balance on Eurofighter you could actually use the tornado pruject , project and get a greater balance . |
| 15 | he built this on and the country pub was just coming into the , you know , people were getting out in their cars and that , there was no breathalyser or anything and the |
| 16 | Just how we were to get out and home once we had arrived there was a problem we still refused to think about . |