Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] out by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 2 | One by one , they were taken out by the instructor so he could assess their skill and how much of the tuition we had taken in . |
| 3 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 4 | These days the king goes out of his way to remind listeners that he is the senior representative of the Hashemites , ‘ the noblest family in Islam ’ and the traditional guardians of Mecca and Medina until they were thrown out by the al-Saud family in 1925 . |
| 5 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |