Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 2 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 4 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 5 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 6 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 7 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 8 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 9 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 10 | In East Africa , travellers were advised to watch out for the variety of indigenous ‘ types ’ to be seen at railway stations , from the Islamic , partly Arabized , Swahili of the coast , to the Kamba and Kikuyu of the interior , and then , a special treat , the magnificent Masai , bearing their shields and spears in a sadly peaceable demonstration of subjection , before reaching the Nilotic peoples of the shore of Lake Victoria . |
| 11 | Jess wondered uncomfortably whether she was expected to move out of the way and let the old ditherer through , or side with the Law and her own interests . |
| 12 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 13 | The nearest I 've come to being arrested in the line of duty was when I was told to go out onto the streets , microphone in hand , and smile at people . |
| 14 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 15 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 16 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 17 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 18 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |
| 19 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 20 | At the same time , many inner-city slums were knocked down , so part of the growing post-war population was forced to move out of the central urban areas . |
| 21 | For this reason , Handy was forced to sell out in the late 1960s . |
| 22 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 23 | Crosby reassured Byrne yesterday after the Republic of Ireland marksman was forced to pull out of the international squad with a calf injury that will sideline him for a fortnight . |
| 24 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 25 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 26 | Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh . |
| 27 | Behind him , something was fighting to get out of the door . |
| 28 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 29 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 30 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |