Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 2 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 3 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 4 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 5 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 6 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 7 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |
| 8 | But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable . |
| 9 | After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself . |
| 10 | He sent her some of his notes of what he had seen in their walks and frequently let her see his ‘ papers ’ before they were copied out for the editors . |
| 11 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 12 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |
| 13 | Bearded seals were hauled out on the ice-floes here and there and there were occasional puffins and guillemots in the bits of open water . |
| 14 | As they were getting out of the police car a royal blue Land Rover drew up beside them and a coastguard officer got out . |
| 15 | As the depths were called out by the leadsmen , it was obvious that all was not well . |
| 16 | Strange couplings and odd noises were rising out of the performances in the dungeon . |
| 17 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 18 | The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up . |
| 19 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 20 | They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill . |
| 21 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 24 | The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe . |
| 25 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 26 | Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole . |
| 27 | They were taken out into the grounds , weather permitting , otherwise ‘ they spend most of their day in this ward , which is a day-and-night nursery combined . |
| 28 | Courses of stone were corbelled out from the angles of the walls of the square , each projecting beyond the others below and carried upon them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Sums were worked out on the backs of envelopes , it was chaos , ’ recalls one former member of his Household . |