Example sentences of "were turn out " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the recessionary 1970s , most governments were turned out at elections or saw their share of electoral support fall . |
| 2 | When the lights were turned out he began crying . |
| 3 | If there was an air raid at night and the lights on the camp boundary were turned out you missed the flickering of the searchlights as you miss the light of the moon when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 4 | Production was up around ten coaches , and eighty wagons were being manufactured , while an average of sixty carriage repairs were turned out weekly . |
| 5 | The mules look as if they were turned out by machine . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This , ’ said Allen , ‘ was the case of my mother , for , my father dying , we were turned out of our homestead in the Dale to make way for a nephew of a new steward . ’ |
| 7 | Since Christie had the vote of the burgh of Stirling at his disposal after the Michaelmas elections of 1740 , when the friends of James Erskine of Grange were turned out of council by Christie 's party , Ilay and Milton showed their appreciation of the magistrate 's friendship by ensuring that Sir Robert Walpole recommended Mr. Christie to Sir Charles Wager to such effect that the admiral named Christie to the highly desirable post of lieutenant in a new frigate , with all the prospects of prize money which such an appointment entailed . |
| 8 | She said it would be a sin if they were turned out when she died , with Mister Johnny the way he is , and after Hepzibah had cared for her so well all these years . |
| 9 | Vast quantities of war materials were turned out : for example , between 1940 and 1945 86 000 tanks , 296 000 aeroplanes , and 76 000 boats of all kinds . |
| 10 | What is truly remarkable , though , was the speed at which the episodes were turned out . |
| 11 | The young men were turned out and the girls looked very pretty , some of them in microscopic skirts ! |
| 12 | The small smelter and mint was said to have been set up in the heart of the Rusland woods down towards the Leven Estuary , and coins were turned out in large numbers . |
| 13 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 14 | They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn . |
| 15 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 16 | These now formed , with the former king , a three-man invasion committee to plan the military operations while shipyards from Brittany to Provence , and factories in Toulon and Brest , were turning out the shipping , munitions , clothing and harness needed . |
| 17 | Ignored and forgotten , Jess moved closer , fascinated by the way things were turning out . |
| 18 | Both guitars share Mr. Donahue 's preferred neck profile , medium-deep and noticeably ‘ V ’ shaped , not unlike the ones Fender were turning out in late ‘ 56 and ‘ 57 . |
| 19 | She was not all that sure that things were turning out so well with Nicky , but she was ready to admit that everything else about the south was idyllic . |
| 20 | Surely no supporter actually believed Bobby Charlton , Justin Fashanu and Tom Finney were turning out for United ? |
| 21 | She was pleased with the way things were turning out . |
| 22 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 23 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 24 | ‘ But what about your own work ? ’ she enquired tentatively , not at all sure she liked the way things were turning out . |
| 25 | They were turning out raw youngsters last season in the Ulster league and there was no way they could survive . |
| 26 | If one area were to turn out to be a tax haven , property and house prices would rise ( capitalizing the favourable tax bill ) in this area , so reducing its . |