Example sentences of "was [verb] out on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues .
2 Because of the two factor experimental design ( substance and site ) , two way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) was carried out on the incremental hormone responses after the test stimuli .
3 Further expansion was carried out on the same basis , progressively moving through the model until more specific activities started to emerge , such as those that could be associated with component 8.7 , ie reduce costs :
4 Extensive conservation work was carried out on an important manuscript map of the Isle of Lewis , produced by Alexander Gibbs in 1817 .
5 I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley .
6 Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate .
7 ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes .
8 Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job .
9 The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle .
10 A newspaper was spread out on the tiled pool surround , and he was murmuring laconically into a cordless telephone .
11 Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky .
12 The quay was deserted ; soon the Black Pig was floating out on the falling tide , and for once as they hoisted the mainsail the crew were well pleased to be going back to sea .
13 A very different response to the critical approach to the Bible was worked out on the other side of the Atlantic by Charles Hodge ( 1797 — 1878 ) of Princeton , the Presbyterian seminary which came to be a veritable bastion of Calvinist orthodoxy .
14 A band was playing out on the huge terrace and one or two couples were lazily dancing .
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