Example sentences of "had been [verb] out by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 2 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 3 | The moves were the first steps in a longer-term support package for the former Soviet republics , estimated at US$24,000 million , which had been mapped out by the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 4 | The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them . |
| 5 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 6 | He had been forced out by the controversy surrounding a video recording , made public by the opposition , which showed Mladenov ( at the time President of the State Council and thus head of State ) suggesting that tanks be used to crush an anti-government demonstration on Dec. 14 , 1989 [ see p. 37110 ] . |
| 7 | But Koch , sporting a crew shirt with a bullseye target on the back — ‘ when anything bad happens I seem to get blamed ’ — said his camp had been caught out by the light winds in the semi-final . |
| 8 | Then there was a list of teachers ' names pinned on the school gate one morning , saying they had been marked out by the death squad . |
| 9 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 10 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
| 11 | ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) . |
| 12 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 13 | The boy 's eyes had been drawn out by the Soul Eater and it gave a dry , evil chuckle of triumph . |
| 14 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 15 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 16 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |