Example sentences of "were [vb pp] out [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol .
2 In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed .
3 The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages .
4 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 .
5 By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " .
6 It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves .
7 There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts .
8 But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable .
9 After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself .
10 He sent her some of his notes of what he had seen in their walks and frequently let her see his ‘ papers ’ before they were copied out for the editors .
11 Bearded seals were hauled out on the ice-floes here and there and there were occasional puffins and guillemots in the bits of open water .
12 As the depths were called out by the leadsmen , it was obvious that all was not well .
13 The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up .
14 They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees .
15 They are not — it was a working document from officials ; Ministers ' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill .
16 The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions .
17 These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon .
18 Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology .
19 The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe .
20 Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans .
21 Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole .
22 They were taken out into the grounds , weather permitting , otherwise ‘ they spend most of their day in this ward , which is a day-and-night nursery combined .
23 Courses of stone were corbelled out from the angles of the walls of the square , each projecting beyond the others below and carried upon them .
24 Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls .
25 ‘ Sums were worked out on the backs of envelopes , it was chaos , ’ recalls one former member of his Household .
26 THE International Weightlifting Federation will decide in February whether to restore a ban on Britons Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton , who were thrown out of the Olympics after failing drug tests .
27 But the one that were carted out on the fields , they were left with the leaves on because the cattle ate the leave as well .
28 The meeting lasted two days and the competitors were billeted out in the homes of local schoolchildren .
29 The wounded were treated by the Commando 's calm Irish doctor , Captain Sam Corry RAMC , who remained unruffled by the turmoil , and the casualties were sent out to the ships .
30 Her hands were held out to the sides , circling supplely , fingers gesturing elegantly .
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