Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 4 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 5 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 6 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |
| 7 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 8 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 9 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 10 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 11 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 12 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 13 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 14 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 15 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 16 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 17 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Computer operator Wightman , based in Marylebone , was picked out at an identity parade . |
| 19 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |
| 20 | It now leads , via sharp bends , into the town , whose broad market place was laid out at the gate of Kimbolton Castle probably around 1200 . |
| 21 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 22 | The resulting invoice was printed out at the payment counter where Mr. A paid £204.6 plus VAT instead of the proper sum of £710.96 plus VAT. ( iv ) The respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 23 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 24 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 25 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |
| 26 | Ironically , before Monday night 's murder in north Belfast , the only other woman to be killed by terrorists this year was singled out at a flat a short distance away . |
| 27 | He left a note explaining his action and it was read out at the inquest . |
| 28 | The poignant vow was read out at the funeral service for the two children who died this week after being overcome by fumes in their cabin aboard the ferry Celtic Pride . |
| 29 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 30 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |