Example sentences of "were [v-ing] out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now they had left the city behind and were heading out into the open country . |
| 2 | The travellers were heading out into the empty desert . |
| 3 | The fish they were pulling out of the Swedish lakes were badly deformed . |
| 4 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 5 | Great flat-topped sheets of cloud were moving out of the frigid lands , intermittently obscuring the moon . |
| 6 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 7 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 8 | And then it was over , and they were coming out into the grey , windy day , the mothers trying not to look at the white-capped sea beyond the point , the boys suddenly gruff and silent now that the moment of parting was come . |
| 9 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 10 | A score of Necromundans from various hives were staring out through the traceried ports ; and by now Lexandro could talk to any of them , whatever their original hive and their hab-level lingo . |
| 11 | Immediately in front of him , Bigwig and Dandelion were staring out from the sheer edge of a high bank , and below the bank ran a stream . |
| 12 | It was growing dusk ; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them . |
| 13 | A group of women prisoners were leaning out of the second-floor window , watching the visitors approach the building . |
| 14 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |