Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [verb] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , being so close to the bathroom , I was able to rinse out the plastic waste-basket he was forced to use whenever his cramps got too bad . |
| 2 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 3 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 4 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 5 | Sam recovered in the third set from 1–3 to lead 5–4 , but she was unable to close out the match against a tough opponent who rarely deviated from her game plan of staying back and slugging it out from the baseline . |
| 6 | He was beset by difficulties ; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season . |
| 7 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 8 | In the dim light it was difficult to make out the illustration . |
| 9 | There were no windows on the first-floor landing , and in the dark it was difficult to make out the numbers on the doors . |
| 10 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 11 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 12 | In this chair , it was convenient to carry out the shaping and moulding of the parts before fitting the arms . |
| 13 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 14 | Once the Zodiac was in motion he was able to ease out the sheet . |
| 15 | Once his eyes became accustomed to the gloom he was able to make out the double curve of the banister as it snaked from the dark first-floor landing into the inky blackness of the main stairwell . |
| 16 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 17 | Bach classified these bacteria into seven different groups , from each of which he prepared a vaccine , and he was able to work out the temperaments associated with each group . |
| 18 | Above all , he was concerned to root out the evil of popery and overcome the influence of ‘ evil counsellors ’ close to the king . |