Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] bring out " in BNC.

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1 When his bones were brought out of their air-conditioned home for me to glimpse , I was astonished at their lightness and frailty .
2 Only three miners were brought out alive .
3 The connection between smuggling , parliamentary politics and the conduct of customs officials was brought out strongly in the election for Wigtown in 1761 , when that town was the returning burgh of a district of four towns , for the position of the customs officers of Wigtown was thought likely to topple the dominant interest of Lord Galloway and his son Lord Garlies .
4 Shield-hung hurdles were brought out into the field , and bowmen and slingshot-throwers behind them began to shred the trees with a descending curtain of missiles .
5 Six weeks later , when the remaining bodies were brought out , militant miners , veterans of the 1819 miners strike had agitated successfully enough for Holmes to comment : ‘ Their great grief was disturbed by agitators and others to create distrust and confusion by acrimonious and malignant observation . ’
6 Maids hurried round with cups of hot posset , stable boys and ostlers shouted as horses were brought out , saddled and made ready to mount .
7 Two years later dozens of Green Goddess military fire engines were brought out of storage to cover the firemen 's strike .
8 Two years later dozens of Green Goddess military fire engines were brought out of storage to cover the firemen 's strike .
9 A new edition of these maps was brought out in 1801 .
10 this is erm , this is a bit like I went to an auction at erm Chesteny Street , and all the exhibits were brought out by hand , by , by the
11 Outside the kitchen door scullions were bringing out steaming chunks of bloody red meat to throw into huge casks of pickle and salt to preserve them .
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