Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 3 | And they were squeezing it out of the carton and it was making this right farty noise . |
| 4 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 5 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 6 | Tessa and Mrs. Mounce , he knew , were watching her out of the corner of their eyes too , as silent and overawed as he was himself . |
| 7 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 8 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 9 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 10 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 11 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 12 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 13 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 14 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 15 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 16 | The next thing she knew James Halden was carrying her out through the yard in strong , muscular arms . |
| 17 | Somehow I was in the boat , and Neil had cast off and was edging her out from the jetty . |
| 18 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 19 | The little boy 's father was lifting him out of the boat . |