Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 2 | Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE-running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10% polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) . |
| 3 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 4 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 5 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 6 | The thirteenth victim of The Fox was photographed on a beach with her skirt hitched up , arm-in-arm with her boyfriend ; their eyes were masked out on the photograph , which was captioned' … rebuilding their romance ’ . |
| 7 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 8 | Mr Browning , who believes the bronzes were smuggled out of the country and later bought by the galleries , said that he felt he had been ‘ led up the garden path ’ . |
| 9 | As with the history of the automobile , several radically different early designs were tried out before the main stream of development settled on the Von Neumann model ; some of these ideas have reappeared as specialized computers or as variations on the basic model ( for example parallel operation of components of the data manipulation unit ) . |
| 10 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 11 | These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon . |
| 12 | Books were spread out on the ground . |
| 13 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 14 | He said a 130lb sheat-fish was hauled out of the Dnepr one time . |
| 15 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 16 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 18 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 19 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 20 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 21 | Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time . |
| 22 | The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration . |
| 23 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 24 | When the marriage of Henry and Constance was solemnised on 27th January 1186 , the ceremony was carried out by the Patriarch of Aquileia , who also crowned Henry as King of Italy . |
| 25 | A study was carried out of the behaviour of … |
| 26 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 27 | The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities . |
| 28 | The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 29 | The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 30 | The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside . |