Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |
| 2 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 3 | Savage penalties were meted out broadcast to the craftsmen , which suggests both a low status in the eyes of the king and a low standard of honesty . |
| 4 | There was n't any problem with old Pinkie Blenkinsop , but when the matter came up Trueman refused to give a promise that we could all stay here until we were carried out feet first . |
| 5 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 6 | One thousand years ago the Mayans were cranking out codices not dissimilar to today 's illustrations . |
| 7 | You need to be talking you need to be talking how long when you were writing out labels . |
| 8 | Even the smallest kittens , they noticed , were acting out attacks either on other members of their own species or on prey animals . |
| 9 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 the Tories were wiped out north of the border . |
| 10 | We 're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental . |
| 11 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 12 | Benjamin looked round the busy yard where servants were pulling out carts and hitching up horses under the watchful eye of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 13 | Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was |
| 14 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 15 | While the crowds at the Broadgate arena were treated to a medley of Disney hits , including ‘ Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ’ and ‘ Whistle While You Work ’ , the obligatory Disney characters were wheeled out hand in hand with the company 's key executives . |
| 16 | We children had a table to one side to ourselves on which were laid out bottles of pop , cakes , buns and bread and jam . |
| 17 | The air raids on London and Liverpool and Birmingham and Clydeside were to knock out communications and close roads and railways and make everybody so pig-sick that they 'd welcome Hitler with open arms . |
| 18 | And then as we were running out Silver said to Cowslip , " Surely you 're coming ? " |
| 19 | Torches were bubbling out flames and streaming smoke . |
| 20 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 21 | Biblios were handing out travel survival packs which looked as though they would contain condoms , but did n't — come on Biblios , this is the 1990s ! |
| 22 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 23 | The three on stage with Willie joined in as best they could , but they sounded as if they were reading out lines from a school book . |
| 24 | Pressures of work and increasingly other competing commitments were squeezing out time for teaching . |
| 25 | Doctors were carrying out brain scans on Miss Harrison . |
| 26 | Not so long ago , when the US Navy were carrying out exercises in the Sea of Japan an American destroyer banged into , and quite severely damaged , a Russian submarine which was monitoring things a little too closely . ’ |
| 27 | 94 per cent were carrying out research in a university department , 6 per cent were polytechnic students ; |
| 28 | 94 per cent were Carrying out research in a university department . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1980s all the major governments in the West were carrying out reviews and costing of environmental policies . |
| 30 | A recent survey found that only about 60% of district health authorities were carrying out alphafetoprotein tests on all pregnant women in their district . |