Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 2 | Alan , who was won several national awards , agreed to compete against all 75 children at Hinderwell Junior School , Scarborough , who were carrying out a topic on communications . |
| 3 | The police , who were carrying out an operation to recover illegal arms in Muhajir-populated areas , opened fire on the crowd which included women and children , many of whom carried copies of the Quran on their heads in a traditional sign of protest . |
| 4 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 5 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 6 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 7 | I thought you were reading out the bit |
| 8 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 9 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 10 | If we were to carry out a similar survey in the future and recording conversations would you be willing to take part ? |
| 11 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 12 | ‘ We were the good guys then , ’ said Mr M. ‘ We were sorting out a problem family for them . ’ |
| 13 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 14 | If we were carrying out a similar survey in the future , recording conversations , would you be willing to take part ? |
| 15 | One , like any new band we were checking out the opposition . |
| 16 | There was no difference between ourselves and Tom Jones , we were trotting out the same material night after night and it was so safe and predictable — two things I 'd always vowed Stiff Little Fingers would never be . |
| 17 | For example , if one were carrying out a survey of library users over six days and the analysis for the working week produced , let us say , 20 print-out sheets , then to ask also for sub-analyses for each of the six days could result in a further 120 sheets . |
| 18 | By dawn they were staking out the Radcliffe Infirmary , Grosvenor Square , Downing Street and Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | On 16th however eight of them were despatched to Maleme airfield , Crete , from where next morning they were to carry out a strafe of airfields in southern Greece at first light . |
| 20 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 21 | They were acting out a version of one of Miss Austen 's stories , and it could go on by itself . |
| 22 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 23 | That 's why , and they were smoking out the window , er , up here . |
| 24 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 25 | I answered , ‘ They were throwin' out a pile of ol' props n ’ costumes . ’ |
| 26 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 27 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |
| 28 | They were testing out the boiler of their Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd . |
| 29 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 30 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |