Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 2 | The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away . |
| 3 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 4 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
| 5 | Christopher Addison was unpopular because of his advanced social policy and he was eventually driven out by the Unionists . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 7 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 8 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 9 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 10 | My inaugural story was eagerly cut out of the paper on the Friday morning . |
| 11 | The target of two-thirds of average earnings was literally pulled out of the air , in order to show how low the pay rates were in Wage Council industries . |
| 12 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 13 | Clasper was soon hauled out of the water by the forces of law and order , something he had never bargained for in a lifetime 's fight against them . |
| 14 | The fire was finally put out on the morning of 12 October . |
| 15 | Even so it was not until July 1962 that a precarious agreement was finally worked out between the factions in Laos , and one which was undone in due course by the intensifying conflict in Vietnam . |
| 16 | In the Civil War that followed , as rival armies from all over India converged on Delhi , Safdarjung was finally driven out of the capital . |
| 17 | She was already scrambling out of the jeep . |
| 18 | Rohmer was already pushing out through the front door after Duvall . |
| 19 | But moments later , he emerged with his freight , to find that Godolphin was already marching out of the copse that screened the Retreat from both the house ( empty , of course ; in ruins ) and any casual spy who peered over the wall . |
| 20 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 21 | It was a fine warm autumn evening and although the light was already dying out of the sky the trees still looked magnificent , shades of gold and red blending with some still-green foliage . |
| 22 | A flood of Literary Lionisers was already pouring out of the railway station , fighting in well-bred fashion over victorias and landaus . |
| 23 | Mr MacAskill argued that Scotland was already losing out to the south of England in terms of investment with £65 million spent over three years north of the Border compared with £1.2 billion allocated by the Government to fund the Jubilee Underground line in London . |
| 24 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 25 | At this conference in November , an agreement was laboriously worked out to the effect that Zimbabwe would shortly gain its legal independence . |
| 26 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 27 | As he helped her up , her gaze went past to him to Sabine , who was just getting out of the car to offer her assistance . |
| 28 | He was evidently very well educated , and he was just turned out on the road , and I do n't know where he is now . |
| 29 | I was just moving out of the way . |
| 30 | She was just going out of the door . |