Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | At this conference in November , an agreement was laboriously worked out to the effect that Zimbabwe would shortly gain its legal independence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 21 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 22 | LORD Aldington was yesterday pointed out in the high court as one of the ‘ culprits ’ guilty of sending thousands of Yugoslavs to their deaths in l945 . |
| 23 | Sentiment was deliberately left out of the equation when David Sole played his last game of rugby . |
| 24 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |
| 25 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 27 | This judgement was quickly born out by the refusal of union leaders to participate in " social pact " talks with the government and employers , viewing the talks as a device to avert the anticipated social protest over a economic austerity programme inherited from Cerezo . |
| 28 | That was clearly borne out at the dispersal of the Mr and Mrs R E White 's Woodhayne herd where the talk of the sale was a 1000gns bid for a nine month old heifer calf . |
| 29 | When the EEC was established in 1957 the objective of creating a CU was clearly spelt out in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 30 | Queen fans were devastated when Barcelona — a Top Ten hit when first released five years ago — was controversially elbowed out as the Games 's theme song by Amigos Para Siempre ( Friends For Life ) . |