Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [verb] out the " in BNC.

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1 He was sick of living out the legend of the Tech-Green wunderkind , sick too of the work he was involved in and the knowledge that went with it .
2 The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company 's knowledge of its charities , and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control ( from 1810 to 1816 , for example , expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000 , largely because of the work on the Company 's almshouses at Acton ) .
3 As Foster ( 1979 ) points out , Cast ells was concerned with mapping out the form of specifically urban contradictions , the contradictions which are created between privately owned means of production and collective aspects of reproduction .
4 The antibody technique was essential for teasing out the roles played by external signals and internal factors in the differentiation of glia — the supporting cells of the nervous system — so that is now one of the systems we understand best .
5 While exaggerating some of the successes of the South Korean forces , the report was correct in bringing out the decline of guerrilla activity and the difficulties of transforming guerrilla operations into a major threat to the existence of the government in Seoul .
6 The heart of the book was a chapter on ‘ The Historian At Work ’ which I do believe was original in setting out the processes which historians go through , from discovering and analysing sources to producing written history at different levels .
7 Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters .
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