Example sentences of "was [verb] out [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 2 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 3 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 4 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 5 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 6 | The ministry , it declared , had been for over a generation " merely the faithful executor of the intentions " of Alexander I and Nicholas I , so that " its every action was carried out under the orders and instructions of the tsars themselves " . |
| 7 | It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’ |
| 8 | The Park is an important recreational resource for both the people of Edinburgh and visitors to the city , and a survey was carried out of the types of use made of the Park , the perceptions of users and the impact such users have on the site . |
| 9 | A series of tests was carried out among the prostitutes who came voluntarily to venereal-disease clinics in late 1989 . |
| 10 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 11 | His suggestion The Clarion was picked out by the judges . |
| 12 | Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles . |
| 13 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 14 | Kate was peering out of the windows as they bumped their way on to a farm track and back to the house . |
| 15 | The British Museum was founded out of the proceeds of such a lottery . |
| 16 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 17 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 18 | ‘ Many centuries ago , a Roman Army was wiped out by the Goths at Adrianopolis . |
| 19 | A sober and numbing Inside Story ( BBC 1 ) , ‘ The Forgotten Holocaust ’ related how the gypsy population of Europe , like that of the Jews , was wiped out by the Nazis . |
| 20 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 21 | This idea was born out of the theories of the brilliant British physicist Paul Dirac , who as long ago as 1930 proposed that there must be an analogue of matter called anti-matter . |
| 22 | Just as Eve came from Adam 's rib , just as Venus was born out of the waves , Agnes sprang from the gesture of that sixty-year-old woman at the pool who waved to the lifeguard and whose features are already fading from my memory . |
| 23 | Mrs Sweet was holding out on the police . |
| 24 | This was borne out by the tests on ‘ bootiful ’ Norfolk turkeys which needed an hour at half microwave power to cook right through without drying the breast meat . |
| 25 | The 1930s witnessed the emerging confrontation with Fascism in Europe , a struggle which was played out on the battlefields of Spain from 1936 to 1939 . |
| 26 | In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 27 | Much of the Somerset Levels and the Fens was shared out between the parishes around , and small blocks were allocated as detached portions at the time of enclosure or drainage ( Fig. 62 ) . |
| 28 | I I will always remember the poor guy who was coming out of the showers with a hard on |
| 29 | I do n't remember what the man looked like but he was coming out of the Arts Centre with his wife , took off his glasses and stepped in between the thugs and me . |
| 30 | And I even noticed that she she was coming out with the thees and thous that that erm |