Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 2 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 4 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 5 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 6 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 7 | In East Africa , travellers were advised to watch out for the variety of indigenous ‘ types ’ to be seen at railway stations , from the Islamic , partly Arabized , Swahili of the coast , to the Kamba and Kikuyu of the interior , and then , a special treat , the magnificent Masai , bearing their shields and spears in a sadly peaceable demonstration of subjection , before reaching the Nilotic peoples of the shore of Lake Victoria . |