Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 2 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 3 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 4 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 5 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 6 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 7 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 9 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 10 | Hungry hacks were flown out to the set to experience the four S's for themselves . |
| 11 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 12 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 13 | Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses . |
| 14 | It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 . |
| 15 | Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday . |
| 16 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 17 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 18 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 19 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 20 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 21 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 22 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 25 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 26 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 27 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 28 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 29 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 30 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |