Example sentences of "he was [verb] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith .
2 He was leaning out of the shelter .
3 Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly .
4 Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat .
5 He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time .
6 In the 10th round , he was ruled out for a foul , and lost his world championship .
7 The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture .
8 He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal .
9 He was pointing out into the audience as he said it .
10 He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando .
11 Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour .
12 He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book .
13 He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his .
14 He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes .
15 Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond .
16 Almost immediately after birth he was sent out to a wet-nurse at the nearby village of Syderstone , where he remained until he was weaned , at about 18 months .
17 He was dragged out into the light , the creature 's awful , Silk-resembled face , alive with the movement of the surface slime that quickened with expectation .
18 He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ?
19 Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles .
20 He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas .
21 Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence .
22 Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area .
23 But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright .
24 He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens .
25 Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable .
26 Frankie 's wrath knew no bounds and after sub-jecting his weeping mother to a tirade of the most vile obscenities he was thrown out of the office by a disgusted recruiting sergeant .
27 Another Gloucestershire player , wicket keeper Jack Russell , was accused of assaulting a television cameraman who was trying to film Lawrence as he was carried out of the ground .
28 In actual fact , he was allowed out of the Kingussie sanatorium for two weeks so that he could be ordained and then on being discharged from the sanatorium , he went to St Joseph 's Parish , Ansdell as a curate .
29 ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old .
30 He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) .
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