Example sentences of "were [verb] out at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 4 | One evening , while they were dining out at a restaurant , he decided to buy some condoms from a machine . |
| 5 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |