Example sentences of "were [verb] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 2 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 3 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 4 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 5 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 6 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 7 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 9 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 10 | Hungry hacks were flown out to the set to experience the four S's for themselves . |
| 11 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 12 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 13 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 14 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 15 | It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 . |
| 16 | Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday . |
| 17 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 18 | Instead , studies were carried out with the focus now on the listener rather than the speaker . |
| 19 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 20 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 21 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 22 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 23 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 24 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 25 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 26 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 27 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 28 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 29 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 30 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |