Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] out the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was beset by difficulties ; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season . |
| 2 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 3 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 4 | Bach classified these bacteria into seven different groups , from each of which he prepared a vaccine , and he was able to work out the temperaments associated with each group . |
| 5 | During the inquiry , Lord Romsey promised he would spend £9m on urgent restoration work on his estate , but that the income from visitors to Broadlands was insufficient to carry out the renovations . |
| 6 | There were no windows on the first-floor landing , and in the dark it was difficult to make out the numbers on the doors . |
| 7 | He had implicit trust in the righteousness of the ‘ movement ’ , and was eager to carry out the orders of its leader . |