Example sentences of "were [vb pp] out at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 6 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |
| 7 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 8 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 9 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 10 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |